A historical atlas of European nobility
Habsburg
Explore the rulers, nobles and dynastic ties of the House of Habsburg and the families connected to it. Search for a person or trace the relationship between two historical figures.
Guided tour
The crown changes hands
Meet four figures from the 645-year passage of crowns, offices and power—from Rudolf I to Karl I.
Follow the succession
They shaped their time
Queens, regents, trailblazers.
Regents, diplomats, sovereigns and founders: a journey through six centuries of women’s agency in Habsburg Europe and beyond.
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Power beyond the crown
Archdukes without a throne.
Eighteen archdukes who never became emperor or king shaped military affairs, government, culture and science—through achievements, contradictions and lasting consequences.
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Love and defiance
Against all odds.
Secret marriages, unequal couples and personal choices: sixteen lives in which intimacy collided with house law, rank and dynastic expectations.
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Courts, journeys, entanglements
Habsburg around the world.
From Madrid and Brussels through Italian courts in exile to Mexico and Brazil, seventeen lives reveal a connected world of dynasty, travel, exile, politics and colonial violence.
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Bodies, court and rule
The Habsburgs and gout.
Eleven lives reveal how gout and podagra appear in letters, biographies and bodily evidence — and how pain, movement, government, care and treatment were historically connected.
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From the atlas
Four lives from the Habsburg world
A selection from across the atlas.
Guided route
Ten rooms. One imperial family story.
Walk from the founders through Maria Theresa and Franz Joseph to the final imperial generation. Meet rulers, their partners, and the children whose lives connect the crypt.
10 rooms · 150 placements · emperors and their children
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