Ferdinando III ( Italian: Ferdinando III d'Asburgo-Lorena ; May 6, 1769 , Florence - June 18, 1824 , Florence ) - Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1790-1801 and 1814-1824, elector and Grand Duke Salzburg in 1803-1806, the Grand Duke of Wurzburg in 1806-1814.
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| Predecessor | Pietro Leopoldo I | ||||||||||
| Successor | Louis I | ||||||||||
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| Predecessor | Eliza Bonaparte | ||||||||||
| Successor | Leopold II | ||||||||||
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| Kind | The Habsburgs | ||||||||||
| Father | Leopold II | ||||||||||
| Mother | Maria Louise of Spain | ||||||||||
| Spouse | 1) Louise Maria Bourbon-Sicilian 2) Maria Ferdinand of Saxony | ||||||||||
| Children | Carolina Ferdinand Teresa, Francis Leopold, Leopold II Maria Louise Joseph Maria Teresa | ||||||||||
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Biography
Ferdinand was the second son of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and Maria Louise, the Infanta of Spain . He inherited from his father the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1790 . As an art lover, he added several new acquisitions to the collection of his ancestors of the Medici , including the Raphael Madonna del Granduka .
Through the efforts of the British, he opposed France , for which his lands were occupied by the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796 , and finally conquered in 1799 . He ruled Tuscany until 1801 , when Napoleon turned his duchy into the kingdom of Etruria and gave it to the heir to the duchy of Parma from the Parma Bourbon dynasty. In compensation, Ferdinand received the Salzburg Elector .
In the Presburg Peace of 1805, Ferdinand was forced to cede Salzburg, but received the Grand Duchy of Würzburg created for him. He remained the ruler in it until the fall of Napoleon in 1814 , after which he returned to Tuscany again.
He died in Florence in 1824 , he was succeeded by his son Leopold .
Family
Since 1790 he was married to Louise Maria Bourbon of Sicily ( 1773 - 1802 ), the daughter of Ferdinand I and Maria Carolina of Austria . Children:
- Carolina Ferdinand Teresa ( 1793 - 1802 )
- Francis Leopold ( 1794 - 1800 )
- Leopold II ( 1797 - 1870 ), Grand Duke of Tuscany
- Maria Louise Joseph ( 1799 - 1857 )
- Maria Theresa ( 1801 - 1855 ), wife of King of Sardinia Carl Albert .
In 1821, Ferdinand married a second time to Maria Ferdinand of Saxony ( 1796 - 1865 ), they had no children.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118686763 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.