Franz, 8th Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch

Franz von Khevenhüller-Metsch (His full name was Franz Eduard Joseph Adam Othmar Leopold Hubertus Maria von Khevenhüller-Metsch.) and Baroness Leontine Marianne Kreß von Kressenstein (a daughter of Baron Christoph Karl Jakob Kress von Kressenstein and Countess Leopoldina Zichy). His maternal grandparents were Count Ferenc Xavér Erdõdy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló (a son of Count Kajetán Erdõdy) and Countess Maria Ilona "Helene" von Oberndorff (a daughter of Count Gustav Adolf von Oberndorff). His grandfather, Count Ferenc, was a brother of Eugénia Erdődy, who married Count György Festetics.

Career Upon the death of his distant cousin, Sigismund von Khevenhüller-Metsch, on 8 November 1945, he became the hereditary 8th Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch . The Princely (Fürsten) title had been granted to his ancestor, Johann Joseph von Khevenhüller-Metsch, in 1763. He was also Count of Hohen-Osterwitz and Annabuchl, Baron of Landskron and Wernberg, and Hereditary Lord of Carlsberg. a daughter of Maximilian Egon II, Prince of Fürstenberg and the former Countess Irma von Schönborn-Buchheim. Together, they were the parents of:

Countess Irma "Sunny" von Khevenhüller-Metsch (1914–1954), who married Silvio Scherz in 1941. Countess Melanie von Khevenhüller-Metsch (1915–1991), who married Count Peter Drašković de Trakošćan, a son of Count Ivan Rudolf Drašković de Trakošćan and Countess Nora von Lützow. He had previously been married to Countess Gabriella Apponyi de Nagy-Appony. Countess Helene "Hella" von Khevenhüller-Metsch (1921–2017), who married Prince Konstantin of Bavaria, the eldest son of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria and Countess Auguste von Seefried auf Buttenheim, in 1953. After his death in a plane crash in 1969, she married Prince Eugen of Bavaria, the only son of Prince Konrad of Bavaria and Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, in 1970.

His wife, Princess Anna, died at Freiburg on 19 August 1928 at aged 34. The Prince of Khevenhüller-Metsch died on 31 January 1977 at Schloss Niederosterwitz, St. Georgen am Längsee, Austria. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Max.