Austrian Habsburgs
The House of Austrian Habsburgs came into being after the April 21, 1521 assignment of the Austrian lands to
Ferdinand I from his brother
Emperor Charles V (also King Charles I
of Spain) (1516 - 1556). This split the Habsburg family into the Spanish Habsburgs and the Austrian Habsburgs. The Austrian Habsburgs held (after 1556) the title of
Holy Roman Emperor, as well as the Habsburg Hereditary Lands
and the Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary.
Technically, The Austrian Habsburgs died out in 1740 (prompting the War of the Austrian Succession). However, the
heiress of the last Austrian Habsburg (Maria
Theresa) had married Francis
Stephan Duke of Lorraine, and their descendants carried on the
Habsburg tradition from Vienna under the dynastic name Habsburg-Lorraine.
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