Karl Albert
*03.01.1847 Vienna - †19.07.1848 Prague, Czech Republik
Archduke of Austria
Karl Albert Ludwig was the son of Archduke Albrecht of Austria-Teschen and Hildegard Luise of Bavaria. He died of smallpox in Prague at the age of one.
On July 24, 1848, his small body arrived by post at the Tabor line and was taken in an ordinary hearse to the Capuchin Church, where the blessing and burial took place without any ceremony.
The sarcophagus
The simple copper coffin with ornamented rod and corner decoration features a coat of arms with the Austrian royal crest on the centre piece, a cross with Christ on the lid, and an inscription plaque. It has six feet. The decorations were added in 1864 at the request of Archduke Albrecht.
The inscription reads:
CAROLVS ALBERTVS. LVDOVICVS. A. A. ALBERTI. A. A. ET HILDEGARDAE. BAV. A. A. FILIVS NATVS. VINDOBONAE D. III. IANVARII. MDCCCXXXXVII MORTVVS. PRAGAE D. XIX. IVLII. MDCCCXXXXVIII. HIC. REQVIESCIT
Here lies Karl Albert Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, son of Archduke Albert of Austria and Archduchess Hildegard of Bavaria, born in Vienna on 3 January 1847, died in Prague on 19 July 1848.