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4 days ago · The ties between this place and France don’t end there, as the city of Tours, where St. Martin is buried, also donated his relics, which are placed in the crypt, the oldest part of the current building. This is also where the heart of Otto von Habsburg, the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, has been resting since his death in 2011.
5 days ago · House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and ...
5 days ago · Germany - Princes, Ascendancy, Unification: By Charles IV’s death in 1378, the division of Germany into numerous loosely defined territorial principalities had reached an advanced stage. In southern Germany the dissolution of the Hohenstaufen duchy of Swabia gave territorial predominance to the Habsburgs, whose original possessions were scattered across Alsace, Breisgau, the Vorarlberg, and ...
5 days ago · Germany - Hohenstaufen, Empire, Reunification: The nearest kinsmen of Henry V were his Hohenstaufen nephews—Frederick, duke of Swabia, and his younger brother Conrad—the sons of Henry’s sister Agnes and Frederick, the first Hohenstaufen duke of Swabia. Some form of election had always been necessary to succeed to the crown, but, before the great civil war, nearness to the royal blood had ...
4 days ago · The term Antichrist (including one plural form) [2] is found four times in the New Testament, solely in the First and Second Epistle of John. [2] Antichrist is announced as one "who denies the Father and the Son." [2] The similar term pseudokhristos or "false Christ" is also found in the Gospels. [3]
3 days ago · The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle , located in present-day Nassau , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany .
3 days ago · By Helen MacEwan. The streets of Brussels were decked out on September 5, 1599, for the Joyeuse Entrée, the ceremonial royal entry into the city of Archdukes Isabella and Albert, the new rulers of the Habsburg Netherlands. Crowds cheered them on their way to the Coudenberg Palace, for great expectations were placed on the newlywed couple.
