death_date birth_date reign father house death_place coronation spouse image name predecessor anthem succession birth_place issue religion mother burial_place article_title
1 april 1922 17 august 1887 21 november 1916 1919 archduke otto franz house of habsburg-lorraine madeira , portuguese republic 30 december 1916 zita of bourbon-parma carlosideaustriahungríab5103637t5103641.jpg charles i & iv franz joseph i '' gott erhalte , gott beschütze '' emperor of bohemia of austria king of hungary and croatia king persenbeug-gottsdorf , austria-hungary otto , archduke of austria-este archduke felix archduke karl ludwig archduke , rudolf archduchess charlotte archduchess elisabeth crown prince of austria archduchess adelheid robert roman catholicism princess maria josepha of saxony igreja in muri abbey , switzerland nossa senhora do monte , madeira heart buried charles i of austria

charles i of austria

charles i of austria or charles iv of hungary -lrb- karl franz joseph ludwig hubert georg otto marie ; 17 august 18871 april 1922 -rrb- was , among other titles , the last ruler of the austro-hungarian empire .
he was the last emperor of austria , the last king of hungary , and the last monarch of the house of habsburg-lorraine .
he reigned from 1916 until 1918 , when he `` renounced participation '' in state affairs , but did not abdicate .
he spent the remaining years of his life attempting to restore the monarchy until his death in 1922 .
following his beatification by the catholic church in 2004 , he has become commonly known as blessed charles of austria .
