Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany

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English name = Archduke Sigismund of Austria


birth_date = Birth date and age|1966|4|21|df=y
birthplace = Lausanne, Switzerland
death_date =
deathplace =
regnal =
title = Grand Duke of Tuscany
Archduke of Austria
Prince Imperial of Austria
Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
throne = Tuscany
pretend from = 18 June, 1993
year = 1860
king = Ferdinand IV
relationship = great-great grandson
house = Habsburg-Lorraine
father = Archduke Leopold Franz
mother = Princess Laetitia of Arenberg
spouse = Elyssa Edmonstone
children =
predecessor = Archduke Leopold Franz
successor =
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Archduke Sigismund of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Sigismund Otto Maria Josef Gottfried Henrich Erik Leopold Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen), Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (born 21 April 1966) is the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany and current head of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Biography

Sigismund was born in Lausanne the son of Archduke Leopold Franz and his first wife Princess Laetitia of Arenberg, born Laetitia de Belsunce (and adopted by her stepfather Erik, 11th Duke of Arenberg). [ [http://www.arenbergcenter.com/en/histoire/genealogie.htm Arenberg Genealogy] ] Sigismund was educated in Computer science and has worked as a banker. [cite news | last = Enders | first = Gaetana | title = "Remembering Tuscany: H.I.R.H. Sigismund of Austria and Elissa Edmonstone" | publisher = Hello Magazine | date = 1999-07-31 | url = http://www.circlesinternet.com/library/gaetana/575.html ]

In 1993 Sigismund's father Leopold Franz renounced his rights as Head of the in favour of Sigismund because his second marriage (after a divorce) conflicted with the laws of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Stephen, of which he was then head. Since then, Sigismund has been the Head of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany.

Sigismund has a deep and long-standing relationship with Uruguay. He was raised there by his mother. He and his maternal family are said to possess important businesses in Punta del Este and in the countryside.Fact|date=August 2007

Honours

Sigismund is Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joseph and Order of Saint Stephen, the two orders of knighthood of the Grand Ducal House of Tuscany. He has also a served as a patron for the Almanach de Gotha. [Almanach de Gotha, [http://web.archive.org/web/20060211154712/www.almanachdegotha.com/site/pat.htm Comité de Patronage] ]

Family

In 1999, Sigismund married Elyssa Juliet Edmonstone (born Glasgow, September 11, 1973), the only daughter of Sir Archibald Bruce Edmonstone, of Duntreath, 7th Baronet by his second wife Juliet Elizabeth Deakin. ["Archduke Sigismund of Austria and Miss E.J. Edmonstone", "The Times" (September 13, 1999), 20.] Archduchess Elyssa is a great-great-granddaughter of Marshall Field and a third cousin of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Edmonstone family is an old Scottish family that was only raised to a baronetcy on 20 May 1774; their best-known member was the royal mistress Alice Keppel.

The couple have three children:

* Archduke Amadeo, Grand Prince of Tuscany (born 9 May 2001), heir apparent to the headship of the House of Tuscany
* Archduchess Tatyana of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (born 3 March 2003)
* Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (born 27 May 2004)

Sigismund lives with his family in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Archduke Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany
2= 2. Archduke Leopold Franz, Prince of Tuscany
3= 3. Princess Laetitia of Arenberg
4= 4. Archduke Gottfried, Prince of Tuscany
5= 5. Princess Dorothea Therese of Bavaria
6= 6. Henri de Belzunce, Marquis of Belzunce
7= 7. Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure
8= 8. Archduke Peter Ferdinand, Prince of Tuscany
9= 9. Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
10= 10. Prince Franz of Bavaria
11= 11. Princess Isabella Antonie of Croÿ
12= 12. Louis de Belzunce
13= 13. Valentine de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet
14= 14. Jean de la Poëze d'Harambure, Marquis of Harambure
15= 15. Madeleine Le Gouz de Sainte-Seine
16= 16. Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany
17= 17. Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma
18= 18. Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta
19= 19. Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
20= 20. Ludwig III of Bavaria
21= 21. Maria Theresia of Austria-Este
22= 22. Karl Alfred, Duke of Croÿ
23= 23. Princess Ludmilla of Arenberg
24= 24. Henri de Belzunce, Viscount of Belzunce
25= 25. Louise de Laas
26= 26. Auguste de Roquefeuil et du Bousquet
27= 27. Marie Louise de Méric de Vivens
28= 28. Gabriel de la Poëze d'Harambure
29= 29. Théodora Ruyneau de Saint-George
30= 30. Raoul Le Gouz de Saint-Seine
31= 31. Pauline de Brosses

Notes

ee also

* Grand Duchy of Tuscany
* History of Tuscany
* Line of succession to the Tuscan throne

External links

* [http://www.granducato.org/ Grand Ducal House of Tuscany]