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Sons of emperors

  • Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorIn 1784, a young Archduke named Francis left the sun-drenched streets of Florence for the cold stone halls of Vienna. He was only sixteen years old when his…
  • Maximilian III JosephMaximilian III Joseph was born on the 28th of March 1727 in Munich. He entered a world already burning with conflict when his father died in January 1745.
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 26th of December 1194, a child named Frederick was born in the market square of Jesi. The location itself was unusual for a royal birth and…
  • Henry IV, Holy Roman EmperorHenry IV entered the world on the 11th of November 1050 within his father's palace at Goslar. He was the third ruler of the Salian dynasty, which governed…
  • Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorJoseph II entered the world at two in the morning on Monday, the 13th of March 1741. He was born inside Vienna's Hofburg palace, which served as the…
  • Philip II of SpainOn the 21st of May 1527, a baby boy was born inside the Palacio de Pimentel in Valladolid. This child would become Philip II of Spain.
  • Leopold II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 5th of May 1747, a boy named Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard entered the world in Vienna as the third son of Empress Maria Theresa and…
  • Sigismund, Holy Roman EmperorBorn on the 15th of February 1368 in Nuremberg or Prague, Sigismund entered a world already shaped by imperial ambition.
  • Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-EsteFerdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus entered the world on the 1st of June 1754 inside the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
  • Napoleon IINapoleon II entered the world on the 20th of March 1811 inside the Tuileries Palace in Paris. His father was Emperor Napoleon I and his mother was Empress…
  • Dara ShikohOn the 20th of March 1615, a son was born to Prince Shahib-ud-din Muhammad Khurram and his second wife Mumtaz Mahal in Ajmer, Rajasthan.
  • Charles LéonNapoleon Bonaparte stood at the center of European history, yet his first son was born in a Paris apartment on the 13th of December 1806.
  • Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria-Hungary on the 20th of November 1912. His full baptismal name included Franz…
  • Archduke Charles, Duke of TeschenFlorence, Tuscany, the 5th of September 1771 marked the birth of Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Lawrence. His father held the title Grand Duke of Tuscany…
  • Alexandre Colonna-WalewskiOn the 4th of May 1810, a boy named Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Walewski drew his first breath at Walewice near Warsaw.