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(Redirected from Archduke Karl Salvator, Prince of Tuscany) Archduke of Austria and gun inventor (1839–1892)
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Archduke Karl Salvator
Born(1839-04-30)30 April 1839
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Austrian Empire
Died18 January 1892(1892-01-18) (aged 52)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Spouse Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies ​ ​(m. 1861)
Issue
Names
German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Phillipp Jacob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Rainer
Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero
HouseHabsburg-Tuscany
FatherLeopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
MotherPrincess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies

Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (Italian: Carlo Salvatore Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Filippo Jacopo Gennaro Lodovico Gonzaga Raniero; German: Karl Salvator Maria Joseph Johann Baptist Philipp Jakob Januarius Ludwig Gonzaga Rainer; 30 April 1839 in Florence – 18 January 1892 in Vienna), was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg.

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 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:

Ancestry

Ancestors of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
8. Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
4. Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
9. Infanta Maria Louise of Spain
2. Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
10. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
5. Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily
11. Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria
1. Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria
12. Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (= 10)
6. Francis I of the Two Sicilies
13. Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (= 11)
3. Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies
14. Charles IV of Spain
7. Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain
15. Infanta Maria Luisa of Parma

References

  1. "Costados Nobres de Portugal", Gonçalo de Mesquita da Silveira de Vasconcelos e Sousa e José Manuel de Seabra da Costa Reis, Livraria Esquina, 1.ª Edição, Porto, 1992, N.º 9
  2. Ribera, José António Moya, Costados, N.º 81
  3. Antaris, Leonardo M. (2017). "In the Beginning". American Rifleman. 165 (10). National Rifle Association of America: 76.
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