Archduke Leo Karl of Austria
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Bestwina
Bestwina is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Bestwina. It lies approximately north of Bielsko-Biała and south of the regional capital Katowice....
) was the son of Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg and a Grand Admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy.-Family:Charles Stephen was born in Židlochovice the son of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria...
and Archduchess Maria Theresia, Princess of Tuscany.
He was his father’s answer to the Eastern European question and become a would-be regent of future Balkan zone of influence of the Habsburg monarchy.
In 1913 he and his younger brother, Wilhelm, enrolled at the imperial military academy at Wiener-Neustadt. Upon reaching Habsburg age of majority, twenty years old, he was inducted into the Order Of The Golden Fleece – a Habsburg noble order – as well as the upper house of the parliament .
He served first in the Austrian army and then after the fall of the Habsburg Empire he served with great distinction in the Polish Army.
He married an Austrian noble woman Maria-Klothilde von Thuillières Gfn von Montjoye-Vaufrey et de la Roche (1893–1978), known among family as Maja in October 1922, at St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna. The marriage was acceptable though morganatic. Their children are granted the title of Count of Habsburg.
Children: Count Leo Stefan of Habsburg (b. 1928).
He lived on a partition of the Żywiec family estate, that he and his brother Albrecht inherited from their father Karl Stefan.
Leo was rising his children German.
He died of tuberculosis on the 28th of April 1939 in his estate in Bestwina
Bestwina
Bestwina is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Bestwina. It lies approximately north of Bielsko-Biała and south of the regional capital Katowice....
, southern Poland. He hadn’t left a last will and the property was inherited by his wife Maja.
He was buried in the local cemetery in Bestwina
Bestwina
Bestwina is a village in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Bestwina. It lies approximately north of Bielsko-Biała and south of the regional capital Katowice....
, a countryside belonging to his family and the place where he and his family moved into a palace in 1933 after the death of Karl Stefan, the father.