The Archduke Franz Ferdinand Children : A Legacy of Resilience Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 precipitated World War I, had 3 children with his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Their offspring—Princess Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst—navigated a tumultuous everyday living marked by the collapse of empires and https://eurohistoryjournal.blogspot.com/2019/07/archduke-franz-ferdinands-grandson.html