
Archduke Sigismund around 1880

Palmhouse in the Gmünd Castle garden
Archduke Sigismund of Austria (Sigismund Leopold Maria Rainer Ambrosius Valentin) (Milan, 7 January 1826 – Vienna, 15 December 1891), was an Archduke of Austria.
Life[]
He was the third son of Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia and Princess Elisabeth of Savoy.
In Imperial-Austrian military services, Sigismund reached the rank of Fieldmarshal-Lieutenant and was owner of the Infantry Regiment No. 45. He participated at the head of a brigade in the Battles of Santa Lucia, Pastrengo and Novara[1] (1848-1849).
In 1859 Sigismund came into the possession of Gmünd Castle. As a passionate botanist and dendrologist, he had an orchid and palm house as well as a spacious landscape park constructed.[2]
Sigismund died unmarried and childless in Vienna and was buried in his own mausoleum in the Gmünd cemetery. In 1852 was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Emperor Franz Joseph.[3]
Orders and decorations[]
Austrian Empire:[4]
- Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1852[5]
Russian Empire:[4]
- Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
- Knight of the Imperial Order of the White Eagle
- Knight of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class
References[]
- ↑ https://www.coulot.info/Coulot/Zumkeller/Adel_Portrait/Schlacht_bei_Novara_1849/novara_1849.htm Coulot
- ↑ Eva Berger: Historische Gärten Österreichs, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2002, S. 216
- ↑ https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96%3AHabsburg%2C_Sigismund_Leopold BLKÖ
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie" (in German). Vienna: Druck und Verlag der K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1898. p. 12.
- ↑ "Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie" (in German). Vienna: Druck und Verlag der K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. 1898. pp. 59, 66.
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