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Hapsburg treasure rediscovered after 100 years in Canada: Among it is the "Fiorentino", the 137-carat diamond

2025-11-06 18:51:21Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The Hapsburg Treasury

After more than a century of mystery, it has been revealed that the “Fiorentino,” one of the world’s largest and most famous diamonds, was never lost. According to German magazine Der Spiegel, the Hapsburg treasures, including the legendary 137-carat diamond, are being stored in a vault in Canada.

Their story begins in 1918, when the last emperor of the dynasty, Charles I, in the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, ordered the crown jewels to be hastily shipped from the Hofburg Palace in Vienna to Switzerland. Among them were Sisi's famous crown and the "Fiorentino" diamond, the size of a walnut.

Three years later, after Charles I failed to restore the throne to Hungary, the diamond disappeared without a trace. It was rumored that it had been broken up, sold, or lost forever. But, as it now turns out, the “Fiorentino” had been in the hands of the imperial family all along.

According to the account of Karl's grandson, Karl Hapsburg, Empress Zita had hidden the diamond in a small brown suitcase and had taken it with her during her exile that took her all the way to Canada. "In theory, it had never disappeared. But very few people knew where it was," he told Der Spiegel.

The secret had been kept for more than 100 years. Only two cousins ??of the Habsburgs knew the location of the vault and discovered it after the death of the last of the imperial family, in 2022.

The “Fiorentino” diamond has a long and illustrious history: it is believed to have once belonged to Charles the Bold, then to the Medici family, and ended up in the Hapsburg collection after the marriage of Francesco Stefano of Lorraine to Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. It is said that Maria Louise received it as a gift when she married Napoleon.

Karl Hapsburg has expressed his desire for the diamond to be exhibited in a museum in Canada, as a sign of gratitude to the country that “hosted my grandmother,” he said. But the Hapsburg family still fears a new possibility of seizure, since after the fall of the empire, their assets were nationalized and Austria, in theory, has not given up its claims on them.

The fate of the rest of the jewels saved by Empress Zita also remains a mystery. According to recent documents, Sisi's crown was last seen in 1925, on the head of a drunken imperial court advisor – and has never been seen since.


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