Hapsburgs » Politics http://www.hapsburgs.net the House of Hapsburg Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:11:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 House of Hapsburg http://www.hapsburgs.net/?p=9 http://www.hapsburgs.net/?p=9#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:11:37 +0000 admin http://www.hapsburgs.net/?p=9 The House of Hapsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spain and the Austrian Empire.

Originally from Switzerland, the dynasty first reigned in Austria, which they ruled for over six centuries, but a series of dynastic marriages brought Burgundy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary and other territories into the inheritance. In the sixteenth century the senior Spanish and junior Austrian branches of the family separated

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In a declaration dated May 31, 1961, Otto renounced all claims to the Austrian throne and proclaimed himself “a loyal citizen of the republic,” a move that he made only after much hesitation and certainly “for purely practical reasons”.

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