I'm Asian and I'm bad at European history so is this correct?
Hapsburgs=originally rulers of the Holy Roman Empire (which is modern day Austria?) so therefore Hapsburgs were Austrian royals that married into many European families?
Europe is confusing
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The Habsburgs were a small dynasty based around Switzerland who were given Austria and became Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire in the 1400s and held it for the rest of its duration. During that time they established a Habsburg line in Spain, Bohemia, and Hungary.
Some what right: they were duke's of Austria/later emperors (19th century)
The HRE you may imagine as a supra-"national"-federation. The leader of this federation was election and after the 14/15th century almost always it was a Habsburg.
To make it more complicated the family was originally from modern day switzerland.
There were other dynasties before the Habsburgs.
The Carolingians were the first one.
The Holy Roman Empire was Austria+Germany+Belgium+Switzerland+Netherlands+Northern Italy + Czech Republic
Habsburgs where not the original holy roman emperor
They came into play much later
Austria is not the modern day HRE
The HRE was destroyed by napoleon and never came back in any way
They did marry into a lot of euro nobles though
There main strategy was abusing european succession laws through incest and other things to seize power of kingdoms(explaining /ourguy/)
The incest thing is not how they became powerful. They became powerful by marrying other families. Incest happened when they were so damn powerful that other Habsburgs and Bourbon royals were the only people high enough to marry the Habsburg heir. They didn't get titles in their incest era.
The first Dynasty of the HRE are the Ottones. It's Otto get's crowned emperor.
Carolingians are the kings of the frankish kingdom (s). Some of them were also emperors, but the HRE only starts when that honor goes to the east away from westfrancia or lotharingia
Don't believe the imperial and later NS propaganda that it endured 1000 years
Weren't the Hapsburg the most significant/long-lasting one?
Like the Palaiologos of Greece?
Longest lasting safe
Most significant one may argue but Id say yes
Austrian Hapsburgs still exists, though they were stripped of all titles, as were all nobles in Austria post WW1.
All you need to know is that the Hapsburgs are the bad guys in literally every conflict they have ever been involved in.
Did Charlie II have assburgers?
>hapsburgs
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Fucking American morons.
where are the hapsburgers?
That's pretty much the opposite. At least from the time of Charles V.
Italian Wars: Habsburgs were the good guys.
Wars of Religion: Habsburgs were the good guys.
War of Spanish Succession: OK, the Bourbons were right this time
Wars against the Ottoman Empire: Habsburgs were the good guys.
French Revolutionary Wars: Habsburgs were the good guys
Napoleonic Wars: Habsburgs were the good guys
Austro-Prussian War: Neither the bad or good guys
he had many things
and he still has our hearts
Habsburgs got the mandate of heaven when the dastardly von Hohenstaufen family upset the ancestor spirits.
They used their mandate of heaven to zerg-fuck every other family and meme' their sons into positions of being rulers.
This is all you need to know
In between were some Wittelbachs and Luxemburgers and couple of Kings/Emperors that didn't launch a dynasty
t. filthy reactionary
Lol from an Eastern Perspective, European Monarchic dynasties are confusing as fuck.
I blame it on Europeans actually allowing women to inherit anything.