Archduke Anton of Austria

Archduke Anton of Austria (Anton Maria Franz Leopold Blanka Karl Joseph Ignaz Raphael Michael Margareta Nicetas von Habsburg-Lorraine; Vienna, 20 March 1901 – Salzburg, 22 October 1987) was a Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne.[1] and an Archduke of Austria by birth. In 1919 all titles of nobility and royalty were abolished and outlawed in Austria and Hungary.[2][3] He was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, and Infanta Blanca of Spain, daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid.

For Archduke Anton Victor, see Archduke Anton Victor of Austria.

Archduke Anton
The Archduke on his wedding day
Born(1901-03-20)20 March 1901
Vienna, Empire of Austria
Died22 October 1987(1987-10-22) (aged 86)
Salzburg, State of Salzburg, Republic of Austria
Burial
Cemetery on the Mondsee
Spouse
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(m. 1931; div. 1954)​
IssueStefan
Maria Ileana
Alexandra
Dominic
Maria Magdalena
Elisabeth
HouseHabsburg-Tuscany
FatherArchduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
MotherInfanta Blanca of Spain
ReligionRoman Catholic

Marriage and issue

After being introduced by King Carol II of Romania, he and Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991) were married in Sinaia on 26 July 1931.

They had the following children:

  • Stefan (1932–1998), naturalized US citizen (1954), married Jerrine Soper (1931-2015) in 1954, with issue.[4]
  • Maria Ileana (1933–1959), married Count Jaroslav Kottulinsky (1917-1959) in 1957, with issue.
  • Alexandra (born 1935), married Eugen Eberhard, Duke of Würtenberg (born 1930) in 1962, divorced in 1972 and annulled at Rome in 1973, with no issue; married Baron Victor von Baillou (born 1931) in 1973, with no issue.[4]
  • Dominic von Habsburg (born 1937), married Engel von Voss (1937-2010) in 1960 and divorced in 1999, with no issue; married Emmanuella Mlynarski (born 1948) in 1999, with issue.[4]
  • Maria Magdalena (born 1939), married Baron Hans Ulrich von Holzhausen (born 1929) in 1959,[4] with issue.
  • Elisabeth (1942-2019), married Dr. Friedrich Sandhofer (born in 1934) in 1964,[4] with issue.

World War II and later life

In the Second World War, he served until late 1944 in the German Wehrmacht as a pilot. After leaving the military, he moved to Bran, where he and his family lived in the Bran Castle. After the coup d'état, and the end of Romania's alliance with Germany on 23 August 1944, the family and their servants were in danger of being interned or thrown out of the country, as German citizens. It was only when King Michael I abdicated on 30 December 1947 and was forced to leave the country that Archduke Anton's family also went into exile. The family spent some time in Switzerland, then in Argentina, then lived in the early 1950s in the United States.

The marriage ended in divorce, made official on 29 May 1954. While Ileana became a nun, Archduke Anton moved to Austria, where he lived until his death in Emmerberg and in St. Lorenz am Mondsee in the Villa Minola. He died on 22 October 1987 at the age of 86. He was buried at the cemetery on the Mondsee.

Further reading
  • Lost Waltz A Story Of Exile by Bertita Harding (1944).

Ancestry

References
  1. Mercedes Vázquez de Prada. L (2016) El final de una ilusión: Auge y declive del tradicionalismo carlista (1957‐1967).
  2. "Law of April 3, 1919, on the referral from the state and the takeover of the assets of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine". Rechtsinformationssystems des Bundes.
  3. Korom, Philipp; Dronkers, Jaap (2015). "Nobles among the Austrian economic elite in the early twenty-first century" (PDF). Nobilities in Europe in the Twentieth Century: Reconversion Strategies, Memory Culture and Elite Formation. Peeters. pp. 281–304.
  4. Almanach de Gotha. 1 (190 ed.). London: Almanach de Gotha. 2013. pp. 65–67. ISBN 9780957519824.
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