#archduke charles

[empirearchives]

When the Directory sent Napoleon to Egypt, France’s neighbors seized his absence as an opportunity to form a second coalition. According to Albert Vandal, the situation got so bad for France, that in the city of Marseille:

“women brought into fashion headdresses ‘a la Suvorov’, ribbons and hats ‘a la Charlotte’, in honor of the Archduke Charles (Austrian commander-in-chief - A.Z.); in the Council of Five Hundred, one speaker from the tribune denounced the Marseilles, who were learning the Russian language in order to more conveniently talk with their deliverers.”

*Suvorov was the leading Russian general

**Archduke Charles was the leading Austrian general and the brother of the Holy Roman Emperor

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[koda-friedrich]

City😁

[otdhistoricalbirthdays]

Happy birthday to Archduke Charles! (September 5th, 1771)

[magnificentlyreused]

This black and golden outfit was first worn by Emperor Charles V in the fifteenth episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. It appeared again on Danielo Lodovisi in the twenty-fifth episode of the third episode. The outfit was worn again by Charles' brother Emperor Ferdinand II in the thirteenth episode of the fourth season.

[dreamconsumer]

Portrait of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen (1771-1847).

[roehenstart]

Field marshal Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen. Unknown artist.

[royal-confessions]

“I hate when people say that Charles should have just refused to marry Diana if he really loved Camilla! Not everyone can be like Ferdinand Burg! Especially with the abdication crisis still fresh in their memory!” - Submitted by Anonymous

[tiny-librarian]

Archduke Charles Joseph with a puppy and a cockatoo at the age of about one and a half. 

He was the only son of Ferdinand III and his second wife, Maria Leopoldine of Austria.

His mother died giving birth to him at the age of 17, and Charles Joseph himself died young as well at the age of 14.

[master-of-the-opera-house]

A tumblrina and their poor little miau miaus

[jariv4]

Blessed Charles of Austria. Last Emperor of Austria and last King of Hungry.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Charles Garabed Atamian - Archduke Rudolf kills himself and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, in his hunting lodge at Mayerling.

Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889), kills himself and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, in his hunting lodge at Mayerling - Drama of Mayerling: Archduke Rodolph of Habsburg (Archduke Rodolph of Habsburg) (Habsburg-Lorraine) (1858-1889))

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that during the Spanish Succession War, prostitutes in Madrid, like most of the city, were sympathizers of the candidate for the throne Felipe V de Borbon.

So when English and Portuguese troops arrived in the city to crown Archduke Charles as Charles III in 1706, the prostitutes devised a biological attack on the troops. In collaboration with some doctors, they fixed and perfumed sick prostitutes. Within a month there were 6,000 cases of syphilis and gonorrhea among English soldiers, enemies of Philip V.

[magnificentlyreused]

This red and gold outfit was first worn by Archduke Ferdinand (later Emperor Ferdinand II) in the seventh episode of the second season of Magnificent Century. It was worn again by Emperor Charles V in the thirtieth episode of the third season.

The outfit appeared again on István Bethlen in the second episode of the second season of Magnificent Century: Kösem.

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

"Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube!"

Day 6 of @spaus-week 's challenge

"Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry!" Was the political strategy of the Habsburgs, and marry did the House of Austria! Infamously, scandalously, sensationally. A mangled wreath of a family tree. We all know this horror story. And we all know the bitter end.

After Emperor Charles V&I divided his Spanish and Austrian inheritance ((also gained through his parents' and grandparents' marriages)) to his descendants and those of his younger brother Ferdinand I respectively, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs notoriously intermarried for generations, right up till Charles II of Spain whose heirless death in 1700 sparked the War of the Spanish Succession. The inbreeding and this informal Latin motto behind it has been blamed to hell and back for their implosion, for the physical ugliness that ran in this royal bloodline. But it is not to say the Habsburgs never went to war, nor that dynastic marriage was a political strategy unique to them! But they were, if anything, bloody successful at it seeing how they did rule half of Europe for 200 years, and then a lot of it in the Austrian line for another 200. Before anyone figured out inbreeding was bad it was considered a privilege to marry into the Habsburgs, with Louis XV claiming that Louis XVI's betrothal to Marie Antoinette was marrying the "Daughter of the Caesars", and Napoleon Bonaparte infamously ditching Josephine for Marie Louise. Charles II was a poor sod who took the fall and the mugs were wretched from the same ugly gene being passed around countless times*, but they did wear power and privilege well.

💅✨ Symbolism bc I'm a NERD and this my Category 10 autism event ✨💅 :

Charles V & Ferdinand I's joint portrait based on that propaganda woodcut, behind them the colours of the Habsburg flag.

The Spanish branch, comprising Charles V & I's descendants, is represented with a black background, and the Austrian branch, comprising Ferdinand I's descendants, gold, both colours pulled from their flag, a dynasty intertwined but split in two.

Round frames denote that the individual had no heirs.

Only the most influential ruler on both sides, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor, are represented as framed portraits, explaining Archduke Charles II's unframed depiction.

The unconventional placement of Charles II of Spain and Emperor Rudolf II's nameplates are a nod to their queerness: their intersexuality and bisexuality respectively.

Ferdinand III's portrait is lopsided because of the losses of the 30 Years War.

Cracks in Charles II's portrait: 🙃🙃🙃

[royalty-nobility]

An Equestrian Portrait of the Young King Charles II of Spain

Artist: Sebastián Herrera Barnuevo (Spanish, 1619–1671)

Date: 1665

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Charles II of Spain

Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), also known as El Hechizado, or the Bewitched, was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor.

Charles became king at the age of four, but for reasons that are still debated, he experienced extended periods of ill health throughout his life. This made the question of his successor central to European diplomacy for much of his reign, historian John Langdon-Davies writing that "…from the day of his birth, they were waiting for his death".

The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Maria Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV of France. Shortly before his death in November 1700, Charles named Philip his heir, but the acquisition of an undivided Spanish Empire by either France or Austria threatened the European balance of power. Failure to resolve these issues through diplomacy resulted in the 1701 to 1714 War of the Spanish Succession.