Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Austrians / [William Alexander].

  • William Alexander
Date:
[1813?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Austrians / [William Alexander]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and confirmed liim in the possession of the domainal province^ commonly called tlie country of La Pleisse, which comprised the greater part of the present Princi- pality of Altenburg'. Nothing remaining to oppose the success of his views^ the Emperor applied to the Diet of Augsberg for its consent to confer the Duchies of Austria, Stiria, and Carniola on his two sons Albert and Rodolphus, and obtained it unanimously. He accordingly invested the two princes with those Duehies with the greatest solemnity, confirming to them the privileges granted by his predecessors to the ancient Dukes of Austria, and regulating the mode of succession tliat was to take place with respect to Ids children, in the fiefs with which he invested them.* The Counts of Hapsburg, thus seised of the title to the Duchy of Austria, which they have ever since retained, assumed the name of it, and formed that second House of Austria, which has since, including Albert IL, given thirteen Emperors successively to Germany, the male line terminating with the Emperor Charles VI. who died on the 20th of October, 1740. At this period it was that, after being distinct for more than ten centuries, the two august branches of the stock of Alsace, whose common ancestor was Etichon I. Duke of Alsace and Swabia, in the thirty-third degree, were united, and in future formed but one House, adding to the splendour of the Imperial throne the double lustre * Albert I. son of Rodolphus I. was crowned emperor on the 9th of August, 1298, and had, among other issue male,' Albert II. surnamed the Wise, Duke of Austria, who married the heiress of the Count de Ferette, and died in 1358. From him the Hapsburg branch of the House of Austria is descended in a right line. b2