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