![]() ![]() Jealously preserving their status, in 1825 the ruling houses of Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Hanover, Hesse, Prussia and Württemberg published a schedule of those noble families that would henceforth be eligible for marriage into their august circle. Despite this illustrious lineage, the Choteks were not deemed eligible to enter the very highest circles of the Austrian-Hungarian aristocracy through marriage. Sophie's mother, Countess Wilhelmine Chotek, could point with pride to her own family tree, that of the illustrious Kinskys, who had long served many Habsburg rulers over the centuries. Her father, Count Bohuslav, was a successful diplomat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ending his career with posts in Brussels and Dresden. Her ancestors had been barons of Bohemia since 1556, counts of Bohemia since 1723, and counts of the Holy Roman Empire ( Reichsgrafenstand) since 1745. Sophie Chotek was born into one of the most distinguished families of the Czech nobility. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, on Maassassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Jdaughter of Count Bohuslav Chotek of Chotkova and Wognin and Countess Wilhelmine Chotek had four sisters and three brothers married Francis Ferdinand also known as Franz Ferdinand (1863–1914), archduke of Austria (r. Name variations: Sophia, countess of Chotek Sophie of Hohenberg Sophie von Hohenberg duchess of Hohenberg, Hohenburg or Hohenbourg. ![]() German-born Austrian aristocrat whose assassination in Sarajevo with husband Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the chain of events that hurled the world into the first total war in history. ![]()
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