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  1. The Habsburg dynasty: Here you can read potted biographies, examine portraits from seven centuries and dip into the historical contexts of past epochs. Timeline Select a period in Habsburg history, from the beginnings of Habsburg rule in the Middle Ages to the collapse of the Monarchy during the First World War.

  2. House of Habsburg - Dynastic Power, Imperial Legacy, Europe's History: The War of the Austrian Succession cost Maria Theresa most of Silesia, part of Lombardy, and the duchies of Parma and Piacenza (Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1748) but left her in possession of the rest of her father’s hereditary lands. Moreover, her husband, Francis Stephen of Lorraine, who in 1737 had become hereditary ...

  3. thednatests.com › habsburgs-family-treeHabsburgs Family Tree

    The Habsburg dynasty, wielding power from the 15th to the 20th century, left an indelible mark ranging from Portugal to Transylvania. They fortified their reign through strategic inter-marriages, as vividly displayed on the family tree, uniting the rulers of several European territories under one lineage.

  4. 5 de mai. de 2022 · Roninnw/Shutterstock. Habsburg rule began over 700 years before Europe's current, exceptionally polite and cooperative nations, but has roots in the demise of the Roman Empire. In A.D. 285, Emperor Diocletian split the fading empire into two halves — east and west — in an attempt to keep Rome on life support, as World History describes.

  5. He moved the family's power base to the Duchy of Austria, which the Habsburgs ruled until 1918. The current house orders are the Order of the Golden Fleece, Imperial and Royal Order of Saint George and Order of the Starry Cross. The House of Habsburg-Lorraine still exists, and the current head of the family is Karl von Habsburg.

  6. The death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916 after a reign of sixty-eight years marked the symbolic end of the Monarchy. In reality the Monarchy did not collapse until the end of the First World War in the autumn of 1918, when Emperor Karl, his successor, abdicated and new nation states were established in the former Habsburg territories.

  7. The first Habsburg to capture parts of today’s Austria was Count Rudolf, who seized the lands of the recently extinct Babenberg family. Rudolf defeated the powerful Bohemian (Czech) King Ottokar in 1278 at the battle of Marchfeld, then settled into the old Babenberg castle in Vienna, which was already an important port city along the Danube with direct access to Germany, Hungary, and the ...