The last Austro[I]-Hungarian[IV] emperor was a Karl, "Charles" to Anglo-Normans. I am unsure why he is first-of-that-name in Austria; several other deutschsprachig Habsburgs had ruled Austria before him, not least Charles V.
Anyway he's beatified. OnePeterFive just treated him with a tongue bath. Those who knew Karl I/IV best, said he was a thirty year old who looked twenty and had a ten year old mind. So who's right?
The Allies, which my ancestors were for, can appreciate that the man reached out to France to nope out of the war. Geopolitically: the correct move, given the Americans' imminent entry and the Russians' weakness. But he botched the handling of it. Austria stayed in there despite this move, and famously lost.
Karl got Religion in his final years, but then... so did John Plantagenet of England (and not of much France) 800 years ago, also first-of-that-name. When are we getting a second John? Probably not for another eight hundred years.
That OnePeterFive slobjob reminds me of those tiresome hagiographies littering the Church Of The East, like Thomas of Marga, as Victorianly translated by Wallis Budge. Catholic laity are cheap dates.
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