Habsburg
[hæpsb:g]
Definition
(noun.) a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806.
Edited by Ervin--From WordNet
Examples
- But everywhere now the Hohenzollern and Habsburg forces were collapsing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Habsburg empire of Charles V paid the Sultan tribute. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 1245 the men of Schwyz burnt the castle of New Habsburg which had been set up near Lucerne to overawe them; its ruins are still to be seen there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their chief trouble came from the claims of a noble family of the Aar Valley, the Habsburg family. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Charles V was not so much a Habsburg as a Fugger emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Papacy seemed to be balancing its traditional reliance upon the faithful Habsburgs against its quarrel with republican France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Unlike its three neighbours, Prussia, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs, Poland had not developed a Grand Monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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