Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919–2010)#Second marriage

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Archduke Rudolf

| image = Erzherzog Rudolf1 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Rudolf in 2008

| birth_name = Rudolf Syringus Peter Karl Franz Joseph Robert Otto Antonius Maria Pius Benedikt Ignatius Laurentius Justiniani Marcus d'Aviano

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov
|1953|1968|end=d.}}
{{marriage|Anna Gabriele von Wrede
|1971}}

}}

| issue = Maria-Anna Galitzine
Karl Peter
Simeon von Habsburg
Johannes Karl
Catharina-Maria

| house = Habsburg-Lorraine

| father = Charles I of Austria

| mother = Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|9|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Prangins, Switzerland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|5|15|1919|9|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Brussels, Belgium

| burial_place = Muri Abbey, Switzerland

}}

Archduke Rudolf of Austria (5 September 1919 – 15 May 2010) was the sixth child and youngest son of Emperor Charles I of Austria and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

Early life

He was born in Prangins, Switzerland, where the former Austrian Imperial family were staying after they had been sent into exile. He was named after Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria.{{cite book |title=Uncrowned Emperor |last=Brook-Shepherd |first=Gordon |year=2003 |publisher=Hambledon Continuum |isbn=1-85285-439-1 |pages=54 }}

Educated with his siblings first in Spain, in Belgium and at the Université Laval in Quebec City,Bernier Arcand, Philippe, « Les Bourbon-Parme dans les institutions d’enseignement du Québec », Histoire Québec, 202, p. 24-28 ([https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/hq/2022-v28-n1-hq07421/100332ac/ lire en ligne] [archive]) but Rudolf was expelled in 1946 once his membership in the formerly imperial House of Habsburg was exposed due to rumors of him and his brother being part of Austrian resistance.de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002, p. 172-174, 196-198 (French) {{ISBN|2-9507974-3-1}} After the war he travelled to the United States, Canada and the Belgian Congo.

Rudolf worked as a Wall Street junior executive{{cite magazine|title=Milestones |magazine=Time |date=6 July 1953 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822861,00.html |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307231523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C822861%2C00.html |archive-date=7 March 2008 |url-status=dead }} and a bank director.Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XV. "Haus Österreich". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2001, pp. 87, 97. (German) {{ISBN|3-7980-0814-0}}.

First marriage

Rudolf was married by Archbishop Fulton Sheen to Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov the daughter of Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Chernyshyev-Besobrasov and his wife, Countess Elizabeta Dmitrievna Sheremeteva, on 22 June 1953 at Tuxedo Park, New York. They had four children. Xenia was killed in a car crash on 20 September 1968, in which Rudolf was also seriously injured.{{cite news | title = Archduchess Xenia of Habsburg killed | work = New York Times | date =27 September 1968}}

Maria-Anna Galitzine (b. 1954) married Prince Peter Galitzine (b. 1955); on 24 November 1981. They have six children.http://w.genealogy.euweb.cz/russia/galitzin3.html
Karl Peter von Habsburg (5 November 1955) married Princess Alexandra Elisabeth von Wrede (12 May 1970), niece of his stepmother Anna-Gabriele. They have two children.http://w.genealogy.euweb.cz/habsburg/habsburg7.html#MAC
Simeon von Habsburg (29 June 1958) married Princess María of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b. 1967) on 13 July 1996. They have five children.de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Le Petit Gotha. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery, Paris 2002 (French) {{ISBN|2-9507974-3-1}}Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XV. "Spanien". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1997, pp. 104-105. (German) {{ISBN|3-7980-0814-0}}.
Johannes Karl von Habsburg (11 December 1962 – 29 June 1975)

Second marriage

Rudolf was married secondly to Princess Anna Gabriele von Wrede (11 September 1940), daughter of Prince Carl Josef Maria von Wrede (1899-1945) and his wife, Countess Sophie Schaffgotsch-Semperfrei von und zu Kynast und Greiffenstein (1916-2008) on 15 October 1971 in Ellingen, Bavaria. They have one daughter:

Catharina-Maria Johanna Zita Sophie Kaspara of Habsburg (14 September 1972) married Massimiliano Secco d'Aragona (b. 1967) on 9 December 1998. They have three sons.https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00014665&tree=LEO