- Mary Of Habsburg
Mary of Habsburg, also named Mary, Maria, or Marie of Hungary, of Austria, of Castile, or of Burgundy (18 September, 1505 - 18 October, 1558) was the Queen consort of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, and later governor of the Netherlands for her brother, Emperor Charles V. - Margaret Of Habsburg
The Archduchess Margaret (Margaretha) of Austria was a Habsburg princess, the daughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Mary of Burgundy. In 1483, she was betrothed to the Dauphin of France, later King Charles VIII of France, bringing with her a dowry of Franche-Comté and Artois, and was transferred to the guardianship of King Louis XI of France (see Treaty of Arras (1482)). After Charles renounced the treaty and married Anne of Brittany, … - Catherine Of Habsburg
Catherine of Habsburg, also called Catherine of Austria, Catherine of Burgundy or Catherine of Castile (14 January, 1507- 12 February, 1578) was Queen consort of Portugal. An Infanta of Castile, Archduchess of Austria, and princess of Burgundy, she was the posthumous daughter of Philip of Habsburg by Joanna of Castile. - Eleanor Of Habsburg
Eleanor of Habsburg, also called Leonor of Castile or Eleanor of Austria (November 15 1498 - February 25 1558) was born Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile, became subsequently in turn queen consort of Portugal (1518-1521) and of France, also duchess of Touraine (1547-1558) as dower. Named Leonor de Austria in Spanish, Leonor(a) in Portuguese and "royne Eleonore" or Alienor in French. - Isabella Of Habsburg
Isabella of Habsburg (also known as Isabella or Elisabeth of Burgundy, of Austria, or of Castile (18 July 1501-19 January 1526), Archduchess of Austria, Infanta of Spain and Princess of Burgundy by birth and Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage, was the daughter of Philip I and Joanna of Castile and the sister of Emperor Charles V. She was born at Brussels. - Leopold Joseph Habsburg
Leopold Joseph Habsburg (June 2, 1682 - August 3, 1684) was a son of Emperor Leopold I and Archduke of Austria. He died in infancy. - Agnes Of Habsburg
Agnes of Habsburg (ca. 1257 - 11 October 1322) was a daughter of Emperor Rudolph I of Germany and his first wife Countess Gertrude of Hohenberg. In 1273 she was married to Elector Albert II of Saxony. They had six children: # Duke Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg (d. 11 March 1356) he was an Elector of Saxony # Otto (d. after 29 August 1311) # Albrecht (d. 19 May 1342), Bishop of Passau in 1322-1342 # Wenzel (d. 17 March 1327), a canon in Halberstadt # Anna (d. - Count Leo Stefan Of Habsburg
Count Leo Stefan Maria Carl Wolfgang Rudolf Fidelis of Habsburg (born June 12, 1928 in Zywiec) is a morganaut of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the representative of the Teschen ducal line. He is the son of Archduke Leo Karl (1893-1939) and Countess Maria-Clothilde de Thuilleres (1893-1978) and a grandson of Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria. He is today the heir to the Dukedom of Teschen. Leo Stefan is also formally not entitled to the title Archduke of Austria, … - Otto von Habsburg
Otto, Crown Prince of Austria or Otto von Habsburg (born 20 November, 1912 as "Archduke Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius of Austria") is the current head of the Habsburg family and the eldest son of Karl of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria and last King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma. - Josef Strauss
Josef Strauss (August 20, 1827 - July 22, 1870) was an Austrian composer. He was fondly referred to as 'Pepi' by his family and close friends. The son of Johann Strauss I and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss, he was born in Vienna. He worked initially as an engineer and designer before joining the family orchestra in the 1850s. - Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939. - Elisabeth Of Austria
Elisabeth of Austria, was born an Archduchess of Austria, and later became Queen of France. She was the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. She was married to Charles IX of France for three and a half years, until his death. Elisabeth enjoyed a privileged and secluded childhood in Vienna, where she and her many siblings were raised as devout Catholics. With her flawless white skin, long blonde hair and perfect physique, … - Gabriel Bethlen
Gabriel Bethlen (de Iktár) (English, Romanian; Hungarian: "Bethlen Gábor", German: "Gabriel Bethlen von Iktár", Slovak: "Gabriel Betlen"; 1580-November 15, 1629) was a prince of Transylvania (1613-1629), duke of Opole (1622-1625) and leader of an anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary. His last armed intervention in 1626 was part of the Thirty Years' War. He led an active Protestant-oriented foreign policy. - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
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". - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
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. - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
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. - Selim II
Selim II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-66) and his favourite wife Roxelana (also Hurrem or Anastasia Lisovska). After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches. - Philip I of Castile
Philip the Handsome was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. Through his mother Mary of Burgundy he inherited the greater part of the Burgundian state the Burgundian Netherlands and through his wife Joanna the Mad he briefly succeeded to the kingdom of Castile. He was the first Habsburg ruler in Spain and his successors recognized him as Philip I of Spain. - Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, son of Jeremi Michał Wiśniowiecki and his wife Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska, was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from September 29, 1669, to his death in 1673. In 1670 he was married to Eleonora Maria Josefa, Archduchess of Austria, a Habsburg, born 1653 at Regensburg died 1697 at Vienna, daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor and stepdaughter of his third wife Eleonore Gonzaga. - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (8 December 1708 - 18 August 1765) (Name in full Franz Stefan) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was also known as Francis III Stephen, Duke of Lorraine. With his wife, Maria Theresa he was the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
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. - Juan Carlos I of Spain
Juan Carlos I de Borbón y Borbón (b. January 5, 1938, in Rome) is the reigning King of Spain. On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated King according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. He successfully oversaw the transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy. Recent polls show that he is widely accepted by Spaniards. Juan Carlos's titles include that of King of Jerusalem, … - Imre Thököly
Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk was a Hungarian statesman, leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising, Prince of Transylvania. He was born at Kežmarok (Hungarian: "Késmárk") in Royal Hungary (now Slovakia) in September 1657. Thököly lost both parents while still a child. - Claudio Magris
Claudio Magris ? Claudio Magris was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1939. He left his native Trieste at the age of eighteen to study at the University of Turin, where he specialised in Germanic Literature. He is now professor of this subject at the University of Trieste. He has published important studies on the relationship between Italian and Germanic cultures and on the importance of central Europe’s cultural milieu, i.e. on German predominance over central European culture. - House Of Luxembourg
The House of Luxembourg was a medieval Holy Roman Empire noble family. In 1308 Henry, count of Luxemburg became German king, his son John of Luxembourg shortly afterwards received the Bohemian crown. The dynasty's rule in the Holy Roman Empire was interrupted by the Wittelsbach twice. With the death of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor the dynasty died out and was succeeded by the Habsburg. - Avram Iancu
Avram Iancu ("Janko Avram" in Hungarian; 1824, in Vidra [de Sus], today Avram Iancu in Alba county, Romania-September 10 1872, in the same area) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848-1849. He was especially active in the Ţara Moţilor region and the Apuseni Mountains. - Samuel von Brukenthal
Samuel von Brukenthal (1721, Nocrich-1803, Sibiu) was the Habsburg governor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania between July 6 1774 and January 9 1787. He was a baron of the Holy Roman Empire, and personal advisor of Empress Maria Theresia. His home, a large palace in Sibiu,is currently home to the Brukenthal National Museum (formed around the collections he gathered, and expanded from a public exhibit first opened in 1817). - Zita Of Bourbon-Parma
Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese (German: Zita von Bourbon-Parma; May 9 1892 - March 14 1989) was the last Empress-consort of Austria and Queen-consort of Hungary, thus she is most commonly referred to as Empress Zita. After the deposition of the dynasty following World War I, she helped keep the Habsburgs united during their exile. - Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and a German prince (Deutscher Fürst). His 68-year reign is the third-longest in the recorded history of Europe (after that of Louis XIV of France and Johannes II, Prince of Liechtenstein). - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
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. - Wickham Steed
H. Wickham "Stickum" Steed full name Henry Wickham Steed (October 10, 1871 - January 13, 1956) was a British journalist and historian. He was one of the first English speakers to sound the warning bells about the new German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. He was born in Long Melford, England. Appointed by Joseph Pulitzer as Paris correspondent for the New York "World", … - Maria Anna Of Austria
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. Born in Graz, her parents were Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor of Habsburg and Maria Anna of Bavaria. She married Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria on the 15 July 1635 in Vienna, was the mother to Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria ("de Bavière (Wittelsbach)") and Maximilian Philip ("Landgrave, de Bavière (Wittelsbach), de Leuchtenberg"). - Sigismund Ii Augustus
Sigismund II Augustus was the only son of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. - Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube. Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, Johann II is the most famous of the family. He was known in his lifetime as "the waltz king." The popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century is due in large part to him. - Maria Theresa Of Spain
Maria Theresa of Spain was the queen consort of France as wife of Louis XIV of France. She was called, in France, "Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche": her paternal aunt, Anne of Austria (1601 - 1666), also a Spanish princess, also used the Austrian archducal title which the Spanish Habsburgs still bore. - Mehmed III
Mehmed III (May 26, 1566 - December 22, 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death. Mehmed III remains notorious even in Ottoman history for having twenty seven of his brothers and half brothers murdered to secure power. He also killed all his sisters as well. Mehmed III was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother Safiye Sultan, the valide sultan. The major event of his reign was the Austro-Ottoman War in Hungary (1596-1605). - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 31, 1527 - October 12, 1576) was king of Bohemia from 1562, king of Hungary from 1563 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1564 until his death. He was a member of the of the House of Habsburg. - Francis Ii Rákóczi
Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703-11 as the prince ("fejedelem") of the Estates Confederated for Liberty of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Today he is considered a national hero in Hungary. - Margarete Maultasch
Margarete Maultasch (1318 - October 3, 1369 in Vienna) was the last Countess of Tyrol from the Meinhardiner dynasty. Upon her death, the Tyrol became united with the Habsburg patrimony. The daughter of Henry, Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol, she succeeded him in the Tyrolean county in the year 1335. The Carinthian duchy then passed to Albert II von Habsburg, the Austrian Duke and eldest son of the founder of the House of Habsburg, Albrecht I von Habsburg, … - Josip Jelačić
Count Josip Jelačić of Bužim (born October 16 1801, Petrovaradin, died May 20 1859, Zagreb; also spelled "Jellachich" or "Jellačić") was the ban of Croatia between March 23, 1848 and May 19, 1859. Jelačić was a noted army general, remembered for his military campaigns during the Revolutions of 1848 when he saved Croatia from Hungarian hegemony and for his abolition of serfdom in Croatia.
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