The Archduke Franz Ferdinand Children : A Legacy of Resilience Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 precipitated Globe War I, had three young children along with his spouse, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Their offspring—Princess Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst—navigated a tumultuous lifestyle marked through the collapse of empires https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/07/archduke-franz-ferdinands-grandson.html