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House of Habsburg

European imperial dynasty

  • Dated 11th century CE – 1780 CE
  • Also called House of Hapsburg, Habsburg, House of Austria

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

COA Habsburg early crest
Wereszczyński  · CC BY-SA 4.0

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 56

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

13 children in the house

  1. Elizabeth of Austria 1526 CE – 1545 CE
  2. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 1527 CE – 1576 CE 5 children in the house
  3. Archduchess Anna of Austria 1528 CE – 1590 CE
  4. Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria 1529 CE – 1595 CE 1 child in the house
  5. Archduchess Maria of Austria 1531 CE – 1581 CE
  6. Archduchess Magdalena of Austria 1532 CE – 1590 CE
  7. Catherine of Austria 1533 CE – 1572 CE
  8. Archduchess Eleanor of Austria 1534 CE – 1594 CE
  9. Margaret of Austria 1536 CE – 1567 CE
  10. Archduchess Barbara of Austria 1539 CE – 1572 CE
  11. Charles II, Archduke of Austria 1540 CE – 1590 CE 10 children in the house
  12. Archduchess Helena of Austria 1543 CE – 1574 CE
  13. Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany 1547 CE – 1578 CE
One family in House of Habsburg: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Prince-Elector

  • 12 holders
  • 12 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

No dates recorded 12

Apostolic King of Hungary

  • 11 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 1 gap
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 17 December 1526 CE – 25 July 1564 CE Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor emperador del SIR de 1556 a 1564 (1503-1564) Has references
  2. 26 July 1564 CE – 12 October 1576 CE Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1527-1576) Has references
  3. 12 October 1576 CE – 25 June 1608 CE Emperor Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612) Has references
  4. 19 November 1608 CE – 20 March 1619 CE Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1557-1619) Has references
  5. 20 March 1619 CE – 15 February 1637 CE Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor Has references
  6. 15 February 1637 CE – 2 April 1657 CE Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657) Has references
  7. Overlap held at the same time as Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

    1647 CE – 1654 CE Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Romans (1633-1654) Has references
  8. Gap about 3 years before the next in this house

    2 April 1657 CE – 5 May 1705 CE Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (1640–1705) Has references
  9. 5 May 1705 CE – 17 April 1711 CE Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor from 1705 till his death in 1711 Has references
  10. 17 April 1711 CE – 20 October 1740 CE Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Has references
  11. 22 October 1740 CE – 24 November 1780 CE Maria Theresa of Austria ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780) Has references

King of Bohemia

  • 11 holders
  • 1 gap
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 9th 1306 CE – 1307 CE Rudolf I of Bohemia Bohemian king
  2. Gap about 219 years before the next in this house

    19th 1526 CE – 1564 CE Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor emperador del SIR de 1556 a 1564 (1503-1564)
  3. 20th 1564 CE – 1576 CE Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1527-1576)
  4. 21st 1576 CE – 1611 CE Emperor Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)
  5. 22nd 1611 CE – 1619 CE Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1557-1619)
  6. 23rd 1619 CE – 1637 CE Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor
  7. 24th 1637 CE – 1657 CE Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)
  8. 25th 1657 CE – 1705 CE Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (1640–1705)
  9. 26th 1705 CE – 1711 CE Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor from 1705 till his death in 1711
  10. 27th 1711 CE – 1740 CE Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor
  11. 28th 1740 CE – 1780 CE Maria Theresa of Austria ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

Holy Roman Emperor

  • 9 holders
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 27 August 1556 CE – 25 July 1564 CE Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor emperador del SIR de 1556 a 1564 (1503-1564)
  2. 25 July 1564 CE – 12 October 1576 CE Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1527-1576)
  3. 12 October 1576 CE – 20 January 1612 CE Emperor Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria (1552-1612)
  4. 13 June 1612 CE – 20 March 1619 CE Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1557-1619)
  5. 28 August 1619 CE – 15 February 1637 CE Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor
  6. 18 November 1637 CE – 2 April 1657 CE Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)
  7. 18 July 1658 CE – 5 May 1705 CE Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (1640–1705)
  8. 5 May 1705 CE – 17 April 1711 CE Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor Emperor from 1705 till his death in 1711
  9. 1711 CE – 1740 CE Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 18th century Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How House of Habsburg connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 2

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 1

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 statements on this record

  • 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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