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