After the family was informed of the relationship, Emperor Franz Joseph refused to give his permission to the marriage. The deeply in love Franz Ferdinand refused to marry anyone else, however, so the couple kept their relationship secret.
However, marriage to a Hapsburg required that one be a member of a reigning or formally reigning dynasty of Europe, and the Choteks were neither. In 1894, Franz Ferdinand met Countess Sophia Chotek and the couple quickly fell in love. After the suicide of the emperor's son, Crown Prince Rudolf, in 1889, and his own father's death from typhoid fever in 1896, Franz Ferdinand was groomed to inherit the throne. He began his military career at age 12 and was quickly promoted through the ranks becoming a major general at age 31. Franz Ferdinand was a member of the House of Hapsburg, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Spanish Empire. Early Life and Marriageįranz Ferdinand was born in Graz, Austria, on December 18, 1863, the oldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig, who was the younger brother of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph. One month later, Austria declared war on Serbia and World War I began. In 1914, a Serb nationalist assassinated him.
While in power, he attempted to restore Austro-Russian relations while maintaining an alliance with Germany. In 1900, Ferdinand gave up his children's rights to the throne in order to marry a lady-in-waiting. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in 1863 in Austria.
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