The second son of Charles II of Inner Austria, he was originally destined for a career in the Church and became Bishop...

The second son of Emperor Ferdinand II, he successfully commanded imperial armies against the Swedes in the Thirty...

Archduchess Leopoldine, a daughter of Emperor Franz II (I), was married to the Portuguese crown prince Dom Pedro at the...

The daughter of Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, she was brought up at the French court. At the age of...

Margarita Teresa, from the Spanish Habsburg line, was the first wife of her uncle, Leopold I. Their union had been...

Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria was the daughter of Emperor Joseph I. In 1719 she married the son of Augustus the...

Maria Theresa was the most important ruler of the age of Enlightened Absolutism and one of the most famous Habsburgs...

Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa’s youngest daughter, was married to the heir to the French throne, the future Louis XVI...

Marie Christine, Maria Theresa’s favourite daughter, was allowed to marry the husband of her choice, Albert of Saxony-...

Archduchess Marie Louise, the eldest daughter of Emperor Franz II (I), was married to the French emperor Napoleon...

Matthias had high political ambitions which brought him into conflict with his brother, Emperor Rudolf II. Following...

With his policies of war and marriage, Emperor Maximilian I laid the foundations upon which the Habsburgs rose to...

Maximilian II stands out among the otherwise strictly Catholic Habsburgs: he was sympathetic to Protestantism – a...

Known popularly as the ‘handsome archduke’, Otto owed his notoriety to his philandering, scandal-ridden lifestyle...

Otto was the eldest son of the last Emperor and Empress of Austria, Karl und Zita, and is thus referred to as the last...

Philip was the son of Emperor Maximilian I. He was married to the Spanish infanta Juana (Joan) in a double wedding in...

Philip succeeded his father as king of Spain, which at the time also encompassed the Burgundian patrimony, domains in...

During his reign Spain was still one of the dominant powers in Europe, a position maintained only through enormous...

His reign represented an epoch of cultural brilliance for Spain in the latter years of the ‘Golden Age’, but also...

Crown Prince Rudolf epitomizes the tragedy of the declining Monarchy. With his progressive ideas, so unlike those of...

Count Rudolf of Habsburg was the first Habsburg on the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. With him, the Habsburgs moved...

Rudolf II had grown up in Spain. After his accession to the throne he moved his residence from Vienna to Prague, which...

Duke Rudolf IV was the most influential Habsburg of the fourteenth century. Despite his short life of only twenty-six...

As the younger brother of Ferdinand Karl of Tyrol, Sigismund Franz was originally intended for the Church. However, he...