#Holy Roman Emperor Habsburg

[thepastisalreadywritten]

These gloves, which stand stately as if they came out of the hands of Nazgül from the Lord of the Rings, are from Holy Roman Emperor Habsburg, Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519).

It's one of the first examples of the century Gothic style.

These gloves, which were handed over to the emperors after them, were in the heritage of the Habsburg Dynasty.

📍: Museum of Military History in Vienna, Austria

[illustratus]

The Battle of Austerlitz, 2nd December 1805 by François Gérard

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, etc. reigned 1740-1780

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

From anon: - chucked into ruling at age 23. while pregnant - no prep!!!! Prussia invades Silesia!!! Ministers fucking around for their own provincial interests instead of for the Whole !!!!! and she has to somehow cope with all of this .... - ALL WHILE being pregnant with Joseph (II) and we know that guy was just as ornery in utero as he was irl - she's everything! He (Francis) is just ....Ken. - YAS QUEEN rediversify that gene pool - originally reluctant to participate in the 1st partition of poland (who wants galicia let's be real)

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1508-1519

Established marriage as politics

[roehenstart]

Rudolf II by Adolf Liebscher.

[dreamconsumer]

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. By Liotard.

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Dance Kid 🤢 vs Theatre Kid 🤮

Redraw of @unanchored-ship 's sketch

[elwingen]

im so sorry francis II was TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD when he became the HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR???

francis I take back everything i've ever said about you honey you should've been at the club.

[royalty-nobility]

Kaiser Joseph II. (1741-1790) with the Statue of Mars

Artist: Anton von Maron (Austrian, 1733-1808)

Date: 1775

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II (13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Marie Antoinette, Leopold II, Maria Carolina of Austria, and Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma. He was thus the first ruler in the Austrian dominions of the union of the Houses of Habsburg and Lorraine, styled Habsburg-Lorraine.

Joseph was a proponent of enlightened absolutism; however, his commitment to secularizing, liberalizing and modernizing reforms resulted in significant opposition, which resulted in failure to fully implement his programs. Meanwhile, despite making some territorial gains, his reckless foreign policy badly isolated Austria. He has been ranked with Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia as one of the three great Enlightenment monarchs. False but influential letters depict him as a somewhat more radical philosophe than he probably was. His policies are now known as Josephinism.

He was a supporter of the arts, particularly of composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. He died with no known surviving legitimate offspring and was succeeded by his younger brother Leopold II.

[lancastrianwasian]

Can we have a limited series about Margaret of Austria? She’s so interesting! Betrothed to the King of France, she was dumped by him in favor of her would-be stepmother. Then she was engaged to the Prince of Asturias, but he died, and afterward, she married the Duke of Savoy, who passed away three years later. After that, she became regent and governor of the Low Countries for her nephew, raising him and her nieces.

Get my girl her moment!

[isabelle-primrose]

The Tomb of Mary of Burgundy in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges, 1501

[whats-in-a-sentence]

This particular crown, an odd relic of Europe's messy Middle Ages, was a mixed blessing; as Voltaire famously remarked in the 1750s, the Holy Roman Empire "was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[solnunquamoccidit]

Kaiser Karl V. mit seinem Englischen Wasserhund

by Jakob Seisenegger (Austrian, 1505 – 1567) oil on canvas (123 × 203,5 cm), 1532

Kunsthistorisches Museum

[illustratus]

Emperor Maximilian I on an Alpine Ibex hunt by Franz Krammer

[best-habsburg-monarch]

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1486-1519

His Wikipedia page has over 700 footnotes

Leopold III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, reigned 1790-1824

There is virtue to just getting through turbulent times.

[roehenstart]

Emperor Franz I (II) (1768-1835) at the age of seven. By Johann Zoffani.

[dreamconsumer]

Emperor Maximilian I of Austria. By Julius Naue and August von Kreling.