biography
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Francis II (Emperor)
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| lived:
| (1768–1835)
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| biography:
| Last Holy Roman Emperor (1792–1806), the first emperor of Austria (Francis I, 1804–35), and king of Hungary (1792–1830) and Bohemia (1792–1835), born in Florence, NC Italy. Defeated on several occasions by Napoleon (1797, 1801, 1805, 1809), he made a short-lived alliance with him, sealed by the marriage of his daughter, Marie Louise, to the French emperor. Later he joined with Russia and Prussia to win the Battle of Leipzig (1813). By the Treaty of Vienna (1815), thanks to Metternich, he recovered several territories (eg Lombardy–Venetia). |
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