HI & RH Archduchess Margarete of Austria (1926-2025)

 

HI & RH Archduchess Margarete of Austria, Princess of Tuscany, died on February 8, 2026, at Rorregg, Austria. She was 99 years old.

 Countess Margarete Isabella Maria Gemma  Kálnoky von Köröspatak was born on May 15, 1925, in Csisco (now Číčov, Slovakia), the daughter of Count Alexander Kálnoky von Köröspatak and HSH Princess Maria, Theresia of Schönburg-Hartenstein.   She married HI & RH Archduke Franz Salvator Franz Carl Rainer Gabriel Mathäus Vincentius Hubert Maria Joseph Ignatius of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, in Vienna on June 18, 1955.   Archduke Friedrich (1927-1999) was the eldest child of  HI & RH Archduke  Hubert Salvator Rainer Maria Joseph Ignatius of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (1894-1971) and HSH Princess Rosemary of Salm und Salm-Salm (1904-2001).

Margarete and her husband, Archduke Friedrich, lived in Schloss Rorregg in Carinthia, Austria. There, they raised four children: TI & RH Archduke Leopold Salvator Hubert Maria Rainer Judas Thaddäus Alexander Maximilian Stephan Franziskus Pius Alois (1956), Archduchess Maria Bernadette Christa Agnes Josepha Raphaela (1958), Archduke Alexander Salvator Maria Josef Raphael Pius (1959), and Archduchess Katharina Mathilde Aloisia Maria Elisabeth Raphaela (1960). They also have ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  

The late Archduke Friedrich was a grandson of HI & RH Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868-1924) and Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (1866-1959), and a great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916)

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The late Archduke Friedrich's Mass card and a note from Archduchess Margarete