The Pope and even the Czar had to intervene! His uncle would only agree to the union if Ferdinand would forfeit his children’s claim to the throne! It was also agreed that Sophie would not get buried in the Habsburg’s burial ground! Talk about family issues! They had three children: Maximillian, Ernst, and Sophie. She was Isabella of Pressburg’s lady-in-waiting from Bohemia and Emperor Franz Joseph, Ferdinand’s uncle did not agree to this relationship, and even though the two decided to marry anyway, it brought much tension between the two men. His children forfeited claims to the throneįerdinand II’s wife Sophie Chotek was what we would call a lady-in-waiting and was not supposed to marry into royalty. He was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison but he died a few into his sentence of an illness. On their way back, the driver took a wrong turn and the car got stuck, as they were trying to get the car out, a young Serbian student Princip who was in a café nearby, saw the opportunity to kill Ferdinand he took his pistol and shot him and his wife killing them on the spot. Instead of fleeing to safety, Ferdinand decided to change his plans, instead, going to the hospital to see the injured soldiers. The person who missed the car was arrested, but some soldiers in the car that was part of the entourage were injured. He escaped the first attempt when a bomb was thrown at his car in Sarajevo. He has traveled to Sarajevo in the capacity of the inspector general when the incident happened. Two attempts at his deathĪrchduke Ferdinand II of Austria was assassinated together with his wife Sophie by a 19-year-old Serbian national terrorist group member Gavrilo Princip during the strife against the Austria-Hungary’s rule over Bosnia on June 28th, 1914. Even though there had been other issues between countries at that time, his death is said to have been the final straw which led to the war that saw millions killed, more than 30 million people injured and economies destroyed. This led to the beginning of World War 1. Other nations joined in to support the warring nations mostly because of alliances that had been formed before. Everyone suspected that Serbia had something to do with the assassination and the war started. When Archduke Ferdinand II the heir to the Austria-Hungary throne was killed by a Serbian terrorist Princip, tension started between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia when Serbia could not meet its demands Russia, being an ally of Serbia declared war on Austria, Germany joined their allies Austria-Hungary to attack Russia.
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