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Definition of Hapsburg
1. 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.
Definition of Hapsburg
1. Proper noun. The alternative spelling of Habsburg ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hapsburg
Literary usage of Hapsburg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"I subjoin here, for refreshment of the reader's memory, a Synopsis, or bare
arithmetical List, of those Intercalary Non-Hapsburg Kaisers, which, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Rudolf of Hapsburg died AD 1291, after a reign of eighteen vigorous years, very
useful to the Empire after its Anarchic Interregnum. ..."
3. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1895)
"On the extinction of the male line of Hapsburg in the person of Charles the Sixth,
the intrigues of the French envoy, Marshal Belle- isle, procured the ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Rudolf of Hapsburg died AD 1291, after a reign of eighteen vigorous years, very
useful to the Empire after its Anarchic Interregnum. ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"He was the first man in England who ventured to brave public opinion by carrying
an umbrella. His monument is in Westminster abbey. Hapsburg (Germ. ..."
6. Medieval and Modern Times: An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1916)
"Maximilian belonged to the House of Hapsburg, and in order to understand European
history since 1500 we must learn something of Maximilian and the Hapsburg ..."
7. A Short History of Belgium by Léon van der Essen (1915)
"CHAPTER VI BELGIUM UNDER CHARLES V (1506-55) AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HOUSE OF
Hapsburg Philip the Fair was made duke and count of the different Belgian ..."