Duke Leopold III of Austria (November 1, 1351 - July 9, 1386) from the Habsburg family, was Duke of Austria from 1365 to 1379, and duke of Styria and Carinthia (Inner Austria) in 1365-1386.

Leopold II (born "Peter Leopold Joseph") (May 5, 1747 - March 1, 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Queen Maria Theresa. Leopold was a moderate proponent of "enlightened absolutism".

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (name in full: "Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician") Habsburg (June 9, 1640 - May 5, 1705), Holy Roman emperor, was the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife Maria Anna of Spain. His maternal grandparents were Philip III of Spain and Margarita of Austria.

Albert II of Austria (December 12, 1298 - August 16, 1358, known as "the Wise" or "the Lame") was Duke of Austria.

Charles V (or Charles I of Spain) (24 February 1500 - 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands (1506-1555), King of Aragon (1516-1556), King (until 1555 on behalf of his mother the queen Joana I) of Castile (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily (1516-1554), Archduke of Austria (1519-1521), King of the Romans (or German King), (1519-1556 but did not formally abdicate until 1558) and Holy Roman Emperor (1530-1556 but did not formally abdicate until 1558).

Frederick III of Habsburg (September 21 1415 - August 19, 1493) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440. Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest the Iron from the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family ruling Inner Austria, i.e. Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife Cymburgis of Masovia. As an Austrian Habsburg Duke, he became Frederick V in 1424.

Charles VI, (German Karl VI; in full Karl Josef Franz) Holy Roman Emperor (October 1, 1685 - October 20, 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 and the second son of Leopold I with his third wife, Eleonore-Magdalena of Pfalz-Neuburg. As pretender to the thrones of Castile and Aragon, he was known as Charles III from 1703 to 1711.

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578 - February 15, 1637), of the House of Habsburg, reigned as Holy Roman Emperor from 1619-1637. He was also the Archduke of Styria (Inner Austria) from 1590-1637, King of Bohemia from 1617-1619 and again from 1620-1637, as well as King of Hungary from 1618-1625. A devout Catholic, his recognition as King of Bohemia and suppression of Protestantism precipitated the early events of the Thirty Years' War.

Joseph II (full name: Joseph Benedikt August Johannes Anton Michel Adam; March 13, 1741 - February 20, 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I. Joseph was a proponent of "enlightened absolutism". He is known by the following names in the languages of his territories: German: "Joseph II", Czech: "Josef II", …

Joseph I (July 26, 1678 - April 17, 1711), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduke of Austria, was the elder son of the emperor Leopold I and his third wife, Eleanora, Countess Palatine, daughter of Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine. Born in Vienna, he was educated strictly by Prince Dietrich Otto von Salm and became a good linguist. In 1687 he received the crown of Hungary and became King of the Romans on January 6, 1690.

Maximilian I of Habsburg (March 22, 1459 – January 12, 1519) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through both war and marriage. He is often referred to as "The Last Knight".

Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary, Archduchess of Austria, was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Maria Theresa was the oldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction to allow her to succeed to the Habsburg monarchy, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Opposition to her acceding to the throne led to the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740.

Ferdinand I was an Austrian monarch from the House of Habsburg. He was first the Archduke of Austria from 1521-1564. After the death of Louis II, Ferdinand ruled as King of Bohemia and Hungary (1526–1564). After his brother Charles V abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor in 1556, Ferdinand reigned as emperor (formally beginning in 1558) until his death.

Rudolph I, also known as Rudolph of Habsburg (German: "Rudolf von Habsburg", Latin "Rudolfus") May 1, 1218 - July 15, 1291) was King of Germany from 1273 until his death. He played a vital role in raising the Habsburg family to a leading position among the German feudal dynasties.

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (July 13, 1608 - April 2, 1657), ruled February 15, 1637 - 1657.

Albrecht I of Habsburg (July 1255 - May 1, 1308), sometimes named as Albert I, was King of Germany, Duke of Austria, and eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and Gertrude of Hohenburg. The founder of the great house of Habsburg was invested with the duchies of Austria and Styria, together with his brother Rudolph II, in 1282. In 1283 his father entrusted him with their sole government, and he appears to have ruled them with conspicuous success.

Leopold V, "the Virtuous", was a Babenberg duke of Austria from 1177 to 1194 and Styria from 1192 to 1194. Leopold was the son of Henry II Jasomirgott and his Byzantine wife Theodora Comnena. In 1172 he married Helena, daughter of King Géza II of Hungary, and their sons were Frederick I and Leopold VI. On August 17, 1186 the Georgenberg Pact was negotiated, by which Styria and the central part of Upper Austria were amalgamated into the Duchy of Austria after 1192.

Ernest the Iron, officially Ernest, Duke of Inner Austria (German: "Ernst der Eiserne"; 1377 - June 10, 1424) was the ruler of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola (collectively Inner Austria) from 1406 until his death. He was a member of the Habsburg dynasty, of the Leopoldian line, whose head of the family he was from 1411 to 1424. Ernest was born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, the third son of Leopold III, Duke of Inner Austria.

Frederick I of Baden (1249 - October 29, 1268) was margrave of Baden from October 4, 1250 until his death. He was the only son of Margrave Herman VI of Baden and of Gertrude of Austria, the niece of Frederick II the Quarrelsome. Duke of Austria. Frederick grew up at the Bavarian court with his friend Conradin of Swabia, the young heir to the Hohenstaufen dynasty. After his fathers death in 1250, he became margrave of Baden, …

Duke Rudolph II of Austria, titular "Duke of Swabia" (1270-May 10, 1290) was the younger son of Rudolph of Habsburg, from 1273 King of the Romans, and Gertrude of Hohenburg. In December 1282 he became Duke of Austria and Styria jointly with his brother Albert I. However, in the Treaty of Rheinfelden (June 1, 1283) he had to waive his share. He married 1289 Agnes of Bohemia (1269-96), daughter of Otakar II of Bohemia and had one son John.

Otakar II (c. 1230 - August 26, 1278) was a king of Bohemia (1253-1278). He was the second son of King Wenceslaus I of the Přemyslid dynasty, and through his mother, Kunigunde, was related to the Hohenstaufen family, being a grandson of the German king, Philip of Swabia. After the death of his older brother Vladislav in 1247, Otakar became the heir to the Bohemian throne and margrave of Moravia. In 1248, some discontented Bohemian nobles declared him as their sovereign.

Leopold VI, "the Glorious" (1176 - July 28, 1230), from the House of Babenberg, was Duke of Austria from 1198 to 1230 and of Styria from 1194 to 1230. Leopold was the younger son of Duke Leopold V. In contravention of the provisions of the Georgenberg Pact, the Babenberg reign was divided after the death of Leopold V: Leopold's elder brother, Frederick I, was given the Duchy of Austria (corresponding roughly to modern Lower Austria and eastern Upper Austria), …

Otto the Merry (July 23, 1301 - February 17, 1339) was a Duke of Austria and the youngest son of Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Tirol. Otto was born in Vienna. He had two brothers, namely Frederick the Handsome and Albert II. From 1330 onwards, he ruled jointly with Albert. After the death of Henry of Carinthia, Emperor Louis the Bavarian gave Carinthia and the southern part of the Tyrol as an imperial fief on May 2, 1335, in Linz.

Herman VI (c. 1226 - October 4, 1250) was Margrave of Baden from 1243 until his death. In 1248, he married Gertrud, the niece of the last male member of the Babenberg family, Duke Frederick II of Austria, and on the basis of that marriage claimed the Duchies of Austria and Styria. However, Herman and his son Frederick could not establish themselves in Austria. <br> <br>

Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria (Vienna June 3, 1540 - July 10, 1590 in Graz) was an Archduke of Austria and ruler of Inner Austria (Styria, Carniola and Carinthia) from the House of Habsburg from 1564. He was the third son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary(1503-1547), daughter of King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary and his wife Anne de Foix. Unlike his brother Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, …

Frederick II, known as the Quarrelsome or the Warlike (German: "Friedrich der Streitbare"; 1201 - 15 June 1246), from the dynasty of the Babenbergers, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1230 to 1246. He was the second, but the only surviving son of Duke Leopold VI and Theodora Angelina, a Byzantine princess. His first spouse was another Byzantine princess named Sophia Laskarina, of the Laskaris dynasty, …

Rudolf IV "der Stifter" (the Founder) (November 1 1339 - July 27 1365) was a member of the House of Habsburg and Duke (self-proclaimed Archduke) of Austria from 1358 to 1365.

Leopold I (August 4, 1290 - February 28, 1326) was a Duke of Austria and Styria from the Habsburg family. He was the third son of King Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Tirol. He was a brother of Duke Frederick III "the Handsome" (also King of the Romans). After the death of his parents, he became the head of the House of Habsburg. As the administrator of Further Austria, he incurred a decisive loss against the Swiss in the Battle of Morgarten in 1315.

Albert III of Austria (September 9, 1349-August 29, 1395), known as "Albert with the Pigtail" (German: "Herzog Albrecht III "mit dem Copfe"), was a duke of Austria and a member of the House of Habsburg.

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