Habsburgs in a sentence

They became all but synonmous with the Habsburgs, as the Habsburgs abandoned their own arms for these.

A few years later both crown would be again united in Habsburgs hands and the union would be restored.

After a successful invasion by the Habsburgs of Spain in the early 16th century, Charles V entrusted its defense to the Knights of St. John in Malta.

After Frederick III's coronation, the Habsburgs were able to hold the imperial throne almost continuously for centuries, until 1806.

Although he eventually fell short of his vision of universal monarchy, Charles I is still considered the most powerful of all the Habsburgs.

Although the best Habsburg forces were elsewhere, fighting French invaders along the German Rhine—part of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs—the Ottomans were unable to regain their Hungarian possessions.

Although William set out from the start to create a single people, it soon became apparent that the north and south had drifted far apart culturally in the 200 years since the south was reconquered by the Habsburgs.

A side effect of this marriage was the use of the Babenberg name Leopold by the Habsburgs for one of their sons.

As there were many territories, so their arms were complex and reflected the waxing and waning position of the Habsburgs within European power politics.

At his death in 1708, the Duke of Mantua was declared deposed and his family of Gonzaga lost Mantua forever in favour of the Habsburgs of Austria.

Britain had 5 or 6 million, Spain had 8 million, and the Austrian Habsburgs had around 8 million.

By the marriage his uncle intended to strengthen the ties with the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs, but also to consolidate his nephew's Catholic faith.

By the time Ferdinand also inherited the title of Holy Roman Emperor from his brother in 1558 the Habsburgs had effectively turned an elective title into a de facto hereditary one.

By the treaty of two years later, the Habsburgs renounced all claims to the territory of the city.

Carafa was elected pope in 1555 through the influence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in the face of opposition from Emperor Charles V. His papacy was characterized by strong nationalism in reaction to the influence of Philip II of Spain and the Habsburgs.

Division of the house: Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs The Spanish and Austrian Habsburg Dominions in 1700, not showing their overseas empire, but showing the division between the Spanish and Austrian branch with their losses and gains.

He was feted by the ruling Habsburgs and rewarded with titles and estates.

He was the fourth Frederick to rule Germany in the Habsburgs' preferred enumeration, which counted Frederick the Fair ("Frederick III") as a legitimate king, although he was elected by only a minority of electors.

His efforts were countered by the Roman Catholic Habsburgs who tried to eradicate heresy in Upper Alsace.

Historians believe that Klimt with the nuda veritas denounced both the policy of the Habsburgs and the Austrian society, which ignored all political and social problems of that time.