The Imperial Crypt (German: Kaisergruft), also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery...
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cities (Vienna was not yet the settled seat of the emperor). After the Imperial Crypt at the Kapuzinerkirche opened in 1633, it became the new dynastic burial...
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Wettin crypt in Katholische Hofkirche, Dresden Crypt of Swedish royal dynasty (Bernadotte) Crypt of Church of Saint Sava, Serbia The Imperial Crypt and Chapel...
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Capuchin Church, Vienna (section Imperial Crypt)
Hofburg Palace, the Capuchin Church is most famous for containing the Imperial Crypt, the final resting place for members of the House of Habsburg. The official...
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St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough (redirect from Imperial Crypt, Farnborough)
be a place of prayer and silence. The Abbey included an Imperial Crypt, modelled on the crypt of Saint-Denis basilica near Paris, where the Emperor had...
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Death and funeral of Otto von Habsburg (section Vienna 16 July (requiem with subsequent procession and entombment in the Imperial Crypt))
entombment in the Imperial Crypt. Commemorations were also held in Bavaria. This was the most recent burial of a royal Habsburg in the Imperial Crypt—following...
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Franz Joseph I of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
defeat at the end of the First World War in 1918. He is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. It was generally felt in the court that the emperor should...
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Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
three traditional Viennese burial sites of the Habsburgs (Imperial Crypt, Heart Crypt, Duke Crypt). "Maria Theresa - the last Holy Roman Empress". Italy...
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
followed her funeral cortege on the morning of 17 September to the Imperial Crypt at the Capuchin Church.: 359 After the attack, Lucheni fled down the...
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Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Louise in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna Napoleon Diamond Necklace de Saint-Amand, p. 1 de Saint-Amand, p. 2 Cuthell, Edith E: Vol 1: An imperial victim : Marie...
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Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
three traditional Viennese burial sites of the Habsburgs (Imperial Crypt, Herzgruft, Ducal Crypt). Names in other languages: German: Matthias Czech: Matyáš...
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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
interred in the traditional resting place of Habsburg monarchs, the Imperial Crypt in Vienna's Neue Markt Square. He is buried in tomb number 57, surrounded...
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Maria Theresa (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
gratitude to Countess Fuchs by having her buried in the Imperial Crypt along with the members of the imperial family. Smallpox was a constant threat to members...
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Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
have been in a state of "mental unbalance", and he was buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) of the Capuchin Church in Vienna. Vetsera's body was...
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Archduke Leopold Johann of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
priests then brought the coffin into the Imperial Crypt. Today's sarcophagus of Leopold Johann in the Imperial Crypt was built in 1740 according to the instructions...
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Maximilian I of Mexico (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
arriving in Trieste, the coffin was taken to Vienna and placed in the Imperial Crypt on 18 January 1868. The Emperor Maximilian Memorial Chapel was constructed...
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constructed by his mother as the Imperial Crypt at St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, next to his father. The Prince Imperial had appointed Prince Napoléon...
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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Joseph died on 20 February 1790. He is buried in tomb number 42 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. He asked that his epitaph read: "Here lies a ruler who, despite...
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Archduchess Sophie of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
needed] Sophie's body was brought back to Vienna and buried in the Imperial Crypt, in Ferdinand's Vault within the southwest pier. The death of her oldest...
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Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
materialised due to Maria Josepha's death due smallpox. She was buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, Austria. Maria Josepha was born on 19 March 1751 at the Hofburg...
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Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
suddenly in Vienna on 1 March 1792. He was buried in the Tuscan Crypt within the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.[citation needed] As a patron of the arts, Leopold...
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transferred to the Imperial Crypt and Chapel at the Monument to the Independence of Brazil in 1972, she was initially buried at the Imperial Mausoleum of St...
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Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Innsbruck on 18 August 1765. He is buried in tomb number 55 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. Maria Theresa and Francis I had sixteen children, amongst...
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Margaret Theresa of Spain (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Margaret died on 12 March 1673, at the age of 21. She was buried in the Imperial Crypt, in Vienna. Only four months later, the widower emperor – despite his...
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Otto von Habsburg (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on 16 July 2011; he was entombed in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna and his heart buried in Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary....
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Archduke Rudolf of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Wien at the age of 43 and was interred in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna; his heart was buried in the crypt in Saint Wenceslas Cathedral in Olomouc. Rudolph...
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2023. She died in Brussels on 13 September 2023 and was buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. "Archduke Charles Troth", The New York Times, Brussels, 12...
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Ferdinand I of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
Lombardy-Venetia. He is interred in tomb number 62 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. He used the titles: His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty Ferdinand the First...
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Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (born 1745) (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
tears! Charles Joseph is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. His heart was buried separately in the Habsburg Crypt in the Loreto chapel of the Augustinian...
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