Charles I (Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen) (17 August 1887 – 1 April 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria, the last king of Hungary (as Charles IV), Croatia-Slavonia and Bohemia (as Charles III), and the last monarch of the Hapsburg dynasty, at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He succeeded his great-uncle Franz Josef in the middle of World War I. Charles reigned from 1916 until 1918, when he "renounced participation" in state affairs, but did not abdicate. He spent the remaining years of his life attempting to restore the monarchy until he died of pneumonia in Madeira, an African colony of Portugal, in 1922. Following his beatification by the Catholic Church, he has become commonly known as Blessed Charles.