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House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (usually spelled Hapsburg in English) 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.
As royal houses are by convention determined via the male line, the Spanish branch ended upon the death of Charles II in 1700 and was replaced by the Anjou branch of the House of Bourbon in the person of his great-nephew Philip V. The Austrian branch technically ended in 1780 with the death of Maria Theresa of Austria and was replaced by the Veaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II . However, in practice, the new successor house styled itself as Habsburg-Lorraine (Habsburg-Lothringen in German).
Under the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the Habsburg dynasty survived under the Austria-Hungary Empire and was eventually diminished after the end of World War I.
House of Habsburg in 1632
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The ruling Habsburg family of Spain and Austria joined in supporting the Catholic side of the Thirty Years' War. Also, the Austrian family had been occupied in resisting the advancement of the Ottoman Empire. After Grantville was sent to the past and aligned itself with Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the balance of power gradually began to shift against the Habsburgs. Spain subsequently joined with its former rivals England, France, and Denmark to form the League of Ostend against the newly established United States of Europe. Austria was undermined by Albrecht von Wallenstein, who aligned himself with the USE after learning of his future assassination at the hands of the Habsburgs. He deposed Ferdinand II from the throne of Bohemia in 1633.
