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Mar 14, 1989 · Zita, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg Empire whose role in a plan to end World War I led to exile from her Austrian palace, died today. She was 96. Born in Italy as a princess of...
Mar 15, 1989 · Empress Zita, a mother of eight and a Roman Catholic, wore mourning black from the time Karl died in exile on the island of Madeira in 1922. Tragedy surrounded the ascent of her husband.
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Apr 2, 1989 · She died in Switzerland on March 14 at the age of 96. Some of the older spectators said they came to pay their respects to a woman they still remembered as their monarch.
The one exception to this was the period of (1601–1621), when shortly before Philip II died on 13 September 1598, he renounced his rights to the Netherlands in favor of his daughter Isabella and her fiancé, Archduke Albert of Austria, a younger son of Emperor Maximilian II. The territories reverted to Spain on the death of Albert in 1621, as ...
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Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: Erzherzog, feminine form: Erzherzogin) was the title born from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty.
On 4 July 2011, Otto von Habsburg, also known as Otto of Austria, former head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1922–2007), and former Crown Prince (1916–1918) and, by pretense, Emperor-King (from 1922) of Austria-Hungary, died at 98 years of age.
Mar 26, 2024 · It was he who, in 1282, bestowed Austria and Styria on his two sons Albert (the future German king Albert I) and Rudolf (reckoned as Rudolf II of Austria). From that date the agelong identification of the Habsburgs with Austria begins (see Austria: Accession of the Habsburgs).
