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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Léopold
Nicolas Sixte (April 3, 1643, Vienna - April 18, 1690), son of Nicholas
II, Duke of Lorraine and Claude of Lorraine. He was the titular Duke of
Lorraine from 1675 to 1690, a time when Lorraine was occupied by France.
He found refuge with the Habsburgs, in whose service he had a notable
military career. The Habsburg connection was cemented by his marriage
(1678) to Eleonora Maria Josefa, Archduchess of Austria (1653-1697),
daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleonore Gonzaga. She
was also the widow of Michä Korybut Wi¿niowiecki, King of Poland. She
passed to her heirs the inheritance of the Gonzaga of Mantua. He was the
younger brother of Ferdinand Philip of Lorraine who died at twenty years
of age in 1659, with whose demise he inherited his aunt's Duchy of Bar.
In the Imperial service, Charles led the Imperial contingent in the army
which relieved Vienna and Hungary from the Turks in 1683. (See Battle of
Vienna). He had first distinguished himself at the battle of August 1,
1664, fighting among Imperial forces against the Turks and had
campaigned in Hungary with general Johann Sporck in 1671.
