Name Archduke of | House House of Habsburg | |
Reign 8 November 1948 - 21 January 1984 Issue Archduchess ElisabethArchduchess AliceArchduke Leopold FranzArchduchess Maria Antoinette Spouse Archduchess Dorothea of Austria Children Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria Parents Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Grandchildren Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Archduke Guntram Maria of Austria, Prince of Tuscany | ||
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (German: Gottfried Maria Joseph Peter Ferdinand Hubert Anton Rupert Leopold Heinrich Ignaz Alfons, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana) (14 March 1902 – 21 January 1984) was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary, Bohemia, and Tuscany by birth. Gottfried was the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany from 8 November 1948 to 21 January 1984.
Contents
Family
Gottfried was born in Linz, Austria–Hungary, the eldest child and son of Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Gottfried was raised with his three siblings in Salzburg and Vienna until the end of World War I in 1918, when his family emigrated to Lucerne, Switzerland. He died in Bad Ischl, aged 81.
Marriage and issue
Gottfried married Princess Dorothea of Bavaria, fifth child and fourth daughter of Prince Franz of Bavaria and his wife Princess Isabella Antonie of Croÿ, on 2 August 1938 civilly and religiously on 3 August 1938 in Sárvár, Kingdom of Hungary. Gottfried and Dorothea had issue: