According to its apparently dubious charter, the royal House of Habsburg emerged from an obscure canton in present-day Switzerland in the early 11th century—several decades before the Norman conquest ...

A portrait (by Juan Carreño de Miranda) of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburg kings, and his father, Philip IV (painted by Diego Velázquez, of whom the king was a patron). Both men had ...

This project is supported by research for the upcoming project "The Holy Roman Empire: Every Year," releasing later this year. Topics covered include: - Early Habsburgs (0:09) - 12th Century (0:13) - ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg, and refused to ...

This project is supported by research for the upcoming project 'The Holy Roman Empire: Every Year,' releasing later this year. The video covers the timeline of the Holy Roman Empire, highlighting key ...

The recent burial of Otto von Habsburg – his body in Vienna, his heart in Hungary – drew attention to one of the most powerful families in European history. For centuries the Habsburg dynasty ruled ...

The European royal dynasties of the Early Modern Age provide a useful framework for human inbreeding research. In this article, consanguineous marriage, inbreeding depression and the purging of ...

After World War I culled Europe’s old empires, President Woodrow Wilson insisted on exporting statehood as America’s gift to Europe’s smaller peoples. Today, Americans in search of their own fraying ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost six centuries after the Habsburg family seat was established in Vienna by the arthritic Albert the Lame, ...

The grandson of Karl I, the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, has launched a controversial claim for the return of palaces and land seized by the Nazis and now held by the Austrian state. Karl Habsburg ...