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See also:ELIZABETH [ AMELIE See also:EUGENIE ] (1837—1898) , See also:consort' of See also:Francis See also:Joseph, See also:emperor of See also:Austria and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Hungary, was the daughter of See also:Duke See also:Maximilian Joseph of See also:Bavaria and Louisa See also:Wilhelmina, daughter of Maximilian I. of Bavaria, and was See also:born on the 24th of See also:December 1837 at the See also:castle of Possenhofen on See also:Lake See also:Starnberg. She inherited the See also:quick intelligence and See also:artistic See also:taste displayed in See also:general by members of the See also:Wittelsbach royal See also:house, and her See also:education was the See also:reverse of conventional. She accompanied her See also:eccentric See also:father on his See also:hunting expeditions, becoming an See also:expert rider and climber, visiting the peasants in their huts and sharing in rustic pleasures. The emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, met the Bavarian ducal See also:family at Ischl in See also:August 1853, and immediately See also:fell in love with Elizabeth, then a girl of sixteen, and reported to be the most beautiful princess in See also:Europe. The See also:marriage took See also:place in See also:Vienna on the 24th of See also:April 1854. In the See also:early days of her married See also:life she frequently came into collision with Viennese See also:prejudice. Her attempts to modify See also:court See also:etiquette, and her extreme fondness for See also:horsemanship and frequent visits to the imperial See also:riding school, scandalized See also:Austrian society, while her predilection for Hungary and for everything Hungarian offended See also:German sentiment. There is no doubt that her See also:influence helped the See also:establishment of the Ausgleich with Hungary, but outside Hungarian affairs the empress took small See also:part in politics. She first visited Hungary in 1857, and ten years later was crowned See also:queen. Her popularity with the Hungarians remained unchanged throughout her life; and the castle of GOd0118, presented as a See also:coronation See also:gift, was one of her favourite residences. Elizabeth was one of the most charitable of royal ladies, and her popularity with her Austrian subjects was more than restored by her assiduous care for the wounded in the See also:campaign of 1866. Besides her public benefactions she constantly exercised See also:personal and private charity. Her eldest daughter died in See also:infancy; Gisela (b. 1856) married the See also:Prince See also:Leopold of Bavaria; and her youngest daughter See also:Marie Valerie (b. 1868) married the See also:Archduke See also:Franz Salvator. The tragic See also:death of her only son, the See also:crown prince See also:Rudolph, in 1889, was a See also:shock from which she never really recovered. She was also deeply affected by the See also:suicide of her See also:cousin See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis II. of Bavaria, and again by the See also:fate of her See also:sister See also:Sophia, duchess of See also:Alencon, who perished in the See also:fire of the See also:Paris charity See also:bazaar in 1897. The empress had shown signs of See also:lung disease in 1861, when she spent some months in See also:Madeira; but she was able toresume her outdoor See also:sports, and for some years before 1882, when she had to give up riding, was a frequent visitor on See also:English and Irish hunting See also:fields. In her later years her dislike of publicity increased. Much of her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was spent in travel or at the Achilleion, the See also:palace she had built in the See also:Greek See also:style in See also:Corfu. She was walking from her hotel at See also:Geneva to the steamer when she was stabbed by the anarchist See also:Luigi Luccheni, on the loth of See also:September 1898, and died of the See also:wound within a few See also:hours. This aimless and dastardly See also:crime completed the See also:list of misfortunes of the Austrian house, and aroused intense indignation throughout Europe.
See A. de See also:Burgh, Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, a Memoir (See also:London, 1898) ; E. See also:Friedmann and J. Paves, Kaiserin Elisabeth (See also:Berlin; 1898); and the See also:anonymous Martyrdom of an Empress (1899), containing a quantity of court See also:gossip.
End of Article: ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
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