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  1. 1 day ago · The house takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built in the 1020s in present-day Switzerland by Radbot of Klettgau, who named his fortress Habsburg. His grandson Otto II was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "Count of Habsburg" to his title.

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      The Kyburg family (/ ˈ k aɪ b ɜːr ɡ /; German: [ˈkyːbʊʁk];...

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  2. 2 days ago · The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg , were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip .

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  3. Apr 4, 2024 · Archduke Otto of Austria (1912 - 2011) and Alix, Princess Napoleon, attend a banquet given by the Belgian government at the Royal Palace of Brussels, 14th December 1960 Central Press/Getty Images The fairytale wedding took place at Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris, where the bride donned a spectacular Oscar de la Renta gown ...

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  5. Apr 19, 2024 · Franz Josef died of pneumonia in the middle of the war, on November 21, 1916. He was 86. He reigned for 68 years, which some sources record as the third-longest European reign. He was succeeded by his grand-nephew Karl. Franz Josef was Austrian emperor from 1848 to 1916. During that time, he presided over a large number of changes in his ...

  6. 6 days ago · June 28, 1914. It is a historically accepted fact that the immediate flash-point that caused the First World War was the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. This event set into motion a collision of the leading European states at the time and resulted in the catastrophe known as the Great War.

  7. Apr 11, 2024 · Franz I. von Sizilien, König von Sizilien 1777-1830 Maria Isabel von Spanien , Königin beider Sizilien 1789-1848 Karl von Österreich-Teschen , Herzog von Teschen 1771-1847