According to its apparently dubious charter, the royal House of Habsburg emerged from an obscure canton in present-day Switzerland in the early 11th century—several decades before the Norman conquest ...

A portrait (by Juan Carreño de Miranda) of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburg kings, and his father, Philip IV (painted by Diego Velázquez, of whom the king was a patron). Both men had ...

The Habsburgs. By Martyn Rady. Allen Lane; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by Basic Books in August; $32. THERE WERE early hints that the union of Philip of Habsburg with Juana the Mad ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg, and refused to ...

Is Netflix's 'The Empress' Based On A True Story? Sisi's challenges are many, including her adjustment to the strict norms of royal life and her struggle integrating into the dynastic, powerful ...

ROME — The Catholic faith and traditions of the Habsburg monarchies helped them enjoy mostly stable marriages and large, happy families that were crucial in governing their kingdoms for more than ...

The European royal dynasties of the Early Modern Age provide a useful framework for human inbreeding research. In this article, consanguineous marriage, inbreeding depression and the purging of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost six centuries after the Habsburg family seat was established in Vienna by the arthritic Albert the Lame, ...

The recent burial of Otto von Habsburg – his body in Vienna, his heart in Hungary – drew attention to one of the most powerful families in European history. For centuries the Habsburg dynasty ruled ...

The grandson of Karl I, the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, has launched a controversial claim for the return of palaces and land seized by the Nazis and now held by the Austrian state. Karl Habsburg ...