Archduke Joseph Franz
Portrait, ca. 1806/7
Born	( 1799-04-09 ) 9 April 1799 Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna , Archduchy of Austria , Holy Roman Empire
Died	30 June 1807 (1807-06-30) (aged 8) Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austrian Empire
Burial	Capuchin Church, Vienna
Names German : Joseph Franz Leopold English: Joseph Francis Leopold
House	Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

Archduke Joseph Franz Leopold of Austria (9 April 1799 ? 30 June 1807) was the second son and seventh child of Francis II , the last Holy Roman Emperor and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily . He was their fourth child to die.

Biography [ edit ]

Archduke Joseph Franz was born at the Hofburg Imperial Palace , where all of his siblings were born. Joseph's mother Maria Theresa died on 13 April 1807 after giving birth to a short-lived daughter, Amalie.

He was a lively child and one of the favourite children of his mother and possibly even his father. ^{[ citation needed ]}

On 30 June 1807, approximately 6 weeks after the passing of his mother, the 8 year-old Archduke died at the Hofburg Palace of either yellow fever or smallpox , though yellow fever seems to be the most acceptable, as the outbreak was in the United States in 1803 and most of the American plagues extended to Europe in a matter of 2?4 years. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Joseph Franz was buried at the Capuchin Church in Vienna , more specifically in the Imperial Crypt (his heart is buried in the Herzgruft chamber), the burial place of his family.

Ancestry [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

• thePeerage.com