Archduke Leopold Maria of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (German: Leopold, Erzherzog von Österreich-Toskana, 30 January 1897 – 14 March 1958) was the second son of Archduke Leopold Salvator, Prince of Tuscany and Archduchess Blanca. At the fall of Habsburg monarchy he remained in Austria and recognized the new republic in order to marry outside the circle of European royal and princely dynasties. Leopold emigrated to the United States where he became a naturalized American citizen under the name Leopold Lorraine. He died in 1958 in Connecticut.
Life
Archduke Leopold of Austria was born in Agram (the historic Austrian-German name for what is now the city of Zagreb in Croatia), the fifth child and second son of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and Princess Blanca of Bourbon (daughter of Carlos, Duke of Madrid). He received the names Leopold Maria Alfons Blanka Karl Anton Beatrix Michael Joseph Peter Ignatz von Habsburg-Lothringen.
During World War I Archduke Leopold served as a lieutenant of artillery in the Austro-Hungarian Army with his eldest brother Archduke Rainier. His actions, on 25 May 1917, as an officer at the Battle of Medeazza, near Trieste in Italy, were favorably noted. At the age of 19, he was the last person appointed to the Order of the Golden Fleece by Emperor Karl. Archduke Leopold also took part in the first line of combat in the Battle of the Piave River.
After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy and the establishment of the First Austrian Republic, he renounced his rights to the Austrian throne in order that he could remain in Austria. He was in love with Baroness Dagmar Nicolics-Podrinska (Zagreb 15 July 1898 – Lausanne 15 November 1967), a member of the minor Croatian nobility. His parents were initially against the marriage as Dagmar did not belong to a royal family. The wedding took place in Vienna on 12 April 1919. Theirs was a morganatic marriage. Dagmar received the title of Baroness von Wolfenau. The couple had one daughter :
Gabrielle of Habsburg-Lorraine (Vienna 15 May 1921 – Zürich 1996) (created Countess of Wolfenau in 1922), who married Johannes von der Mühll (1918 – 1977), a Swiss banker, in 1948 and had two daughters and a son in Switzerland before her divorce in 1958.