focused on 15 members of the so-called Spanish Habsburgs. While the Habsburg family rose to power in central Europe as the rulers of Austria, Germany and eventually the Holy Roman Empire, the family’s influence spread westward to Spain after Philip I, son of the second Habs...
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged” and some medieval spoofing a la “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” the tuner packs in 40 members of the royal family — from Rudolf I, born 1218, through Ludwig Viktor, who died in 1919, a year after Austria became a democracy and the ...
The chaos of the Habsburg family tree brought down the dynasty and is one of the most famous cases of royal inbreeding throughout ...
Here in a sixteenth-century building, still inhabited by the counts of Enzenberg, and uniquely furnished with original fittings (everything from cradles to handtowels) you can see the amazing Habsburg family tree - a fresco contemporary to the emperor covering the walls with branches and tendril...
The vaunted line of Habsburg was one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Europe and beyond. As rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburgs sat at the right hand of God...but there was something very rotten in this House of Austria. From almost the moment of its conception, ...
A royal dynasty whose members became the hereditary rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, and held authority over the largest realm in Europe during the Renaissance. The Habsburgs originatedin Swabia, a duchy of southwestern Germany. In 1246 they took control of the duchy of Austria. ...