Archduke Sigismund of Austria (1826–1891)

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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 1852 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Emperor Franz Joseph.^[2]

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.^[3]

Sigismund contracted a viral disease then called influenza (see 1889–1890 pandemic) in Vienna on December 15th 1891, died from pneumonia unmarried and childless four days later^[4] and was buried in his own mausoleum in the Gmünd cemetery.

• Austrian Empire:^[5]
  • Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1852^[6]
• Russian Empire:^[5]
  • 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