Ferdinand Ier of Austria

See also: Ferdinand Archduke of Austria

Ferdinand Ier Charles Léopold Joseph François Marcellin (Vienna, April 19th 1793 - Prague, June 29th 1875) was emperor of Austria , king of Lombardy-Venezia and king Ferdinand V of Bohemia and Hungary of the March 2nd 1835 with the December 2nd 1848.

He was epileptic. He did not have a child of his marriage (1831) with the princess Marie Anne of Sardinia (1803-1884).

He is last king de Bohême to be crowned in Prague, in the Cathédrale Saint-Guy of Prague, his successor will scorn this privilege. He is called affectionately by the Czechs Ferdinand Dobrotivý (Ferdinand the Good) and more maliciously by the Austrians Ferdinand der Gütige (Ferdinand the Benign one) or more cruelly Gütinand der Fertige (finished Bonninand).

At the time of the revolution of the Printemps of the People, whereas the people walk on the palate and that he asks an explanation to the chancellor Metternich, he sees himself answering that they make a revolution. This answer is allotted to him: (Not… they have it right to do that?).

Felix zu Schwarzenberg (which has just been appointed chancellor to replace Metternich, by entregeant of his/her brother-in-law, Alfred, Prince de Windisch-Graetz) then convinces it to abdicate with the profit of its nephew François Joseph I {{er}}, then 18 years old which replaces it with the head of the kingdom, on December 2nd, 1848.

Note

One should not confuse Ferdinand Ier of Austria with the emperor Ferdinand I {{er}} of the Holy roman Empire, archduke of Austria at the 16th century.

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