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