The Habsburgs ruled much of Europe—but their power came with a price. Their infamous jawline became a symbol of royal inbreeding gone too far.

Since 1780, they had ruled the Habsburg Netherlands, or Austrian Netherlands – a terrain comprising most of modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Why was this illustrious couple hitting ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...

David Roth The Austrian Jew David Roth was born in 1808 in Cassovia (now Košice in Slovakia, but then it was part of Hungary ...

The nationalism of maimed nations is a powerful and dangerous thing. Located right in the core of Europe, Hungary has struggled against just about every current flowing through the continent, crushed ...

There was a time when French kings did weigh heavily on papal elections, jostling for influence with other powerful Catholic monarchies, from the Spanish king to the Hapsburg emperor. Those days ...

Both bride and groom wore coordinating outfits in the French style, fashioned from cloth ... and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol". Following the nearly four-hour ceremony, the ...

In 1631, under the Treaty of Bärwalde, France agreed to provide financial support to help the Nordic nation in the Thirty Years War against Habsburg Austria; Sweden's royal family is descended from a ...

Carême takes place during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution. The chef, played by Benjamin Voisin, ...

However, the most explosive revelation came from French archaeologist Jean de Bonnefon ... as it was fundamental to legitimising the Habsburg claim to the Hungarian throne. However, this secrecy only ...

A decade later, following his failure to be elected emperor, the French king Louis XIV created the League of the Rhine to isolate the Austrian branch of the Habsburgs from Spain. During this period, ...