Emperor of Austria
Francis I of Austria
Austria 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835
In 1814: Allied sovereign; Napoleon’s father-in-law
He was the father of Marie-Louise and the grandfather of the King of Rome. Francis had good dynastic reasons for wanting a regency rather than a Bourbon restoration, but in the end he went along with his allies.
On the timeline
Sources
- Wikidata (dates of birth and death, portrait identifiers)
- F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon at Bay, 1814 (London: John Lane, 1914) · Public domain. The main source for strengths, losses and movements on this site.
- Images: Wikimedia Commons. The licence for each image is checked at build time and linked from its caption.