In The Wall Street Journal, Seth Lipsky recalls Otto von Habsburg, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary who died this week, beloved for fighting against Hitler and Communism.

In the spectacular Santa Maria dell’Anima, once the church of the Holy Roman Empire, he visited the relics of his distant relative Karl 1, the beatified Habsburg emperor, whom he reveres as the ...

Ferdinand II, who had inherited the Austrian branch of the Habsburg lands Charles V divided in 1556, faced a revolt by Protestant nobles in the Holy Roman Empire.

This episode covers the Swiss origin of the Habsburg dynasty and the rise of the future Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who turned his small Viennese kingdom into a budding empire in the 15th ...

Habsburg descendants ruled over the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, and in Spain until the heirless death of Charles II, also known as “the Bewitched”, which led to the 13-year War of the Spanish ...

When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and three dwarves.

Inbreeding behind facial deformity in one of history's largest royal dynasties, study says 'Don’t get married with your sister or your mother,' warns one of the authors of a study of the ...