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Maximilian and the Habsburg matrimonial policy. Beginning with Maximilian, the foundations for the dynasty’s later ascent to Great Power status were laid within three generations thanks to a number of strategically concluded marriages. The first of these was Maximilian’s own nuptial union: the Burgundian Marriage to the richest heiress in ...
- Maximilian I: Marriage and Offspring
Mary (1457–1482) was the only child of Duke Charles the Bold...
- Maximilian and The Emperorship
In 1493 his father, Emperor Frederick III, died.Maximilian...
- Philip I
Philip was the son of Emperor Maximilian I. He was married...
- Art in The Service of Politics
To this end he published a number of autobiographical works....
- Maximilian I: Marriage and Offspring
Marrying royals/nobility was just a question of political alliance: marrying a commoner wouldn't give you troops helpful to defend the Kingdom. But, in our days and ages, where alliances aren't contracted through marriage, I don't see why a Royal shouldn't marry a commoner, because they're also commoners too (if you see it through the French ...
Some notable results of Habsburg inbreeding were (probably) Emperor Ferdinand of Austria who was mentally unfit to rule. The Habsburg jaw, as seen in its most extreme with Karl/Charles/Carlos II of Spain, was (at least according to this article by El Pais) not due to excessive inbreeding.
Nov 1, 2021 · Royal status in the modern age is often a full-time job, with royals expected to engage in diplomatic, humanitarian, and other work that benefits both the family and their country. At the same time, working any sort of "normal" job is frowned upon as being below your status. As a result, when modern-day commoners marry into royalty, they're ...
- Jeff Somers
The first major growth in Habsburg holdings was a result of Maximilian’s arranged marriage to Mary of Burgundy (top right) which, through Mary’s lack of brothers, resulted in Maximilian's heirs inheriting Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Burgundy (Skjelver and Wiesflecker).
The third son, Ferdinand Karl (1868–1915), caused a stir in 1911 when he was forced to leave the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by Emperor Franz Joseph, having admitted to secretly marrying the commoner Berta Czuber (1879–1979). He subsequently assumed the name Ferdinand Burg.
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Dynastic Marriage in Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft 245 anomaly appears when one finds otherwise shrewd and ruthless princes troubling themselves to conform to a custom that a sophisticated contem-porary critic saw fulfilling its main purpose badly. It is, of course, possible to find sixteenth-century Habsburg rationalizations
