Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este

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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor
Archduke of Austria-Este
Prince of Modena
Francis IV of Modena
MotherMaria Beatrice of Savoy

Ferdinand Karl Viktor (20 July 1821 – 15 December 1849) was Archduke of

Modena
.

Biography

Born in

Francis IV of Modena and his niece and wife, Maria Beatrice of Savoy. His paternal grandmother had been heiress to the Duchy of Modena, because her father Ercole III d'Este
had no sons.

Ferdinand married

in Vienna. Elisabeth and Ferdinand had one daughter:

Ferdinand, who was a Feldmarschalleutnant (Austrian "two stars" general rank), died at Brno a few months later at the age of 28 from typhus. His widow remarried with Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria.

Ferdinand is the link in the

Maria Theresa of Austria-Este
.

Ancestry

Sources