750 Years of Habsburg History in 17 Minutes

The Habsburgs didn't conquer Europe. They married it, and the same habit, turned inward, ended their Spanish line. From a castle named after a hawk to a crypt door in Vienna that wouldn't open for a list of titles, this is the 750-year story of one family's weddings, and what they cost. 0:00 Won by weddings? 0:49 What's coming 1:09 A castle named after a hawk 1:57 A count woken at midnight 3:09 The motto 3:56 The ring 5:02 Spain 6:00 The double wedding 6:53 Mohács 7:49 From the Americas to Hungary 8:29 The secret of the Habsburgs 8:48 The tree that closed 10:44 Maria Theresa 12:22 The Empress 13:23 The heir 14:14 Exile, and a picnic 15:37 The knock 16:19 They married it Sources William Coxe, History of the House of Austria, vols. 1 and 3 (London, 1847 and 1864) Walter K. Kelly, History of the House of Austria, from the Accession of Francis I to the Revolution of 1848 (London, 1853) Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1911): "Habsburg", "Rudolph I.", "Maximilian I.", "Mary, duchess of Burgundy", "Maria Theresa", "Pragmatic Sanction", "Francis Joseph I.", "Elizabeth of Austria", "Spanish Succession, War of the" G. Alvarez, F. C. Ceballos and C. Quinteiro, "The Role of Inbreeding in the Extinction of a European Royal Dynasty", PLoS ONE 4(4): e5174 (2009), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... R. Vilas, F. C. Ceballos, L. Al-Soufi et al., "Is the 'Habsburg jaw' related to inbreeding?", Annals of Human Biology 46 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019... Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto? (Milan, 1921), p. 362 (the "Bella gerant alii" distich) Die Welt der Habsburger (habsburger.net): Karl I's declaration of 11 November 1918; Otto Habsburg-Lothringen; Napoleon and Marie Louise Kapuzinergruft, "Wer begehrt Einlass?" (kaisergruft.com); The Irish Times, 5 July 2011 Hofburg Vienna, the oath of renunciation, 28 June 1900 German Federal Government, "Pan-European Picnic" (2019); Austrian Parliament, Wahlrechtsänderungsgesetz 2011 Archive images (as credited on screen): Matthäus Merian (1642); attributed to Niklas Reiser, Mary of Burgundy (c. 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum); Albrecht Dürer, Maximilian I (1519, Kunsthistorisches Museum); Bernhard Strigel, Maximilian I with His Family (after 1515, Kunsthistorisches Museum); attributed to Juan de Flandes, Philip the Handsome (c. 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum); Juan de Flandes, Joanna of Castile (c. 1500); Titian, Charles V at Mühlberg (1548, Museo del Prado); Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656, Museo del Prado); Juan Carreño de Miranda, Charles II (c. 1680, Hispanic Society of America); manner of Martin van Meytens, Maria Theresa and her family (1754); Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Empress Elisabeth (1865, Hofburg, Vienna); Hofatelier Kosel, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie (c. 1914, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek); Harry Pot / Anefo, Otto von Habsburg (1961, Nationaal Archief, CC0); the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493, Rijksmuseum, CC0, and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek); NASA Blue Marble #history #Habsburgs #Austria