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List of Austrian consorts

List of Austrian consorts

Royal consorts of Austria


This is a list of the Austrian empresses, archduchesses, duchesses and margravines, wives of the rulers of Austria. The monarchy in Austria was abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918.

Arms of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria

The different titles lasted just a little under a millennium, 976 to 1918.

Margravine of Austria

House of Babenberg

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Duchess of Austria

House of Babenberg

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Interregnum

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House of Habsburg

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Albertinian Line

Albert III received the Archduchy of Austria, later called Lower Austria.

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Leopoldinian line

Main line

Leopold III received the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, the County of Tyrol and Further Austria.

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In 1406, the Leopoldinian lines split their territories:

Ernestine line

The Ernestine line received the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, also called Inner Austria:

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Elder Tyrolean line

The Elder Tyrolean Line received Tyrol and soon also Further Austria. These territories were also called Upper Austria:

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Claimant Duchesses

Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, claimed the Austrian territories and occupied Austria proper and Styria. Claiming the title "Duke of Austria", he resided in Vienna from 1485 to his death in 1490.

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Archduchess of Austria

House of Habsburg

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Lower Austria

Lower Austria (Austria proper) passed to Ferdinand's 1st son Maximilian:

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Upper Austria

Upper Austria (Tyrol, Further Austria) passed to Emperor Ferdinand's 2nd son Ferdinand:

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Inner Austria

Inner Austria ("Inner-Österreich") (Styria, Carinthia and Carniola) passed to Emperor Ferdinand's 3rd son Charles:

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Reunited and redivided, again

The Austrian territories were reunited again by inheritance in 1619 under Ferdinand III, Archduke of Inner Austria, but in 1623 five years into the Thirty Years' War he had so much to do with, Ferdinand divided them yet again, when he made his younger brother Leopold, who had been governor over Upper Austria, Archduke of those territories.

Lower Austria

Lower Austria and Inner Austria remained with the elder line (Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor):

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Upper Austria

Upper Austria passed to the Younger Tyrolean Line:

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United again

The Austrian territories were conclusively reunited in 1665 under:

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House of Habsburg-Lorraine

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Archduchess of Austria-Este

Empress of Austria

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See also


References

  1. Also named Adelaide in some source.
  2. Also named Sophia in some source.
  3. The marriage was dissolved by the Pope in the following year; because it was only by proxy (rather than in person), it is not generally considered a 'real' marriage.
  4. Claimed as Archduchess based on the unrecognized Privilegium Maius.
  5. Did not claim title of Archduchess, but there was the senior Duchess in the Habsburg family and its claim on that title.

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