Name Archduke Salvator | ||
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Issue Archduchess Maria TheresiaArchduke Leopold SalvatorArchduke Franz SalvatorArchduchess Karoline MarieArchduchess Isabelle ElenaArchduke Albrecht SalvatorArchduchess Maria AntoinetteArchduchess Maria ImmakulataArchduke Rainier SalvatorArchduchess HenrietteArchduke Ferdinand Salvator Spouse Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (m. 1861) Children Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria Parents Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies Similar People Archduke Hubert Salvator, Archduke Johann Salvator, Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduchess Marie Valerie of, Archduke Anton of Austria |
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, in Italian Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero, in German Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Ranier (Florence, 30 April 1839 – Vienna, 18 January 1892), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.
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Early life and career
He was an Austrian Archduke, a son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany and second wife Marie Antoinette of Tuscany. He was a Feldmarschall-Leutnant of the Imperial (k.u.k.) Austro-Hungarian Army. He worked with Count George von Dormus as as inventor of early self-loading small arms including the Salvator Dormus pistol and the Salvator-Dormus M1893 heavy machine gun.
Family and children
He married in Rome on 19 September 1861 his first cousin Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (Naples, 14 April 1844 - Vienna, 18 February 1899), daughter of his maternal uncle Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies, and second wife Maria Theresa of Austria.
Their children were: