Habsburgian

alternative Hapsburgian

1. not comparablehistoryOf or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.

   It was an attempt to preserve the teutsche Libertät, the autonomy of the imperial Estates against Habsburgian efforts to gain absolute power.

   1995, Olaf Mörke, “5: The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results”, in Karel Davids, C. A. Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, page 145

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   They most commonly employed a Habsburgian notion of state and society in which authorities were understood to be guardians of Indians, part of a pact between crown and subjects.

   2001, Charles F. Walker, “Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820”, in Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert M. Joseph, editors, Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times, page 49

   From that time on and for over a century and a half, the struggle against this “Habsburgian noose” and against the threat of a Habsburgian universal monarchy became the main concern of French foreign policy.

   2008, Jörg Ulbert, “Chapter 3: France and German Dualism, 1756-1871”, in C. Germond, H. Türk, editors, A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe, page 40

plural Habsburgians · alternative Hapsburgian

1. historyA Habsburg, a member of the Habsburg dynastic family.

   Before that time the Habsburgians had been for centuries the emperors of the German Holy Roman Empire until they were deposed by Napoleon in 1806.

   1985, Peter Bernholz, The International Game of Power: Past, Present and Future, page 34

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   The successors to Ferdinand of Aragon as kings of Spain were the Habsburgians Charles I (1516-1556, since 1519 Roman Emperor Charles V), Philipp II (1556-1598), Philipp III (1598-1621), the dedicatee of Stella's Columbeis (see above, pp. 456 ff.), Philipp IV (1621-1665), Charles II (1665-1700), and Philipp V (1701-1746).

   1994, Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold, The Classical Tradition and the Americas, page 510

   They did not imitate the image policy of the Constantinople emperors but that of the Habsburgians, saying that they were the equals of the Habsburgs.

   2001, Jukka Korpela, Prince, Saint, and Apostle: Prince Vladimir Svjatoslavič of Kiev, his Posthumous Life, and the Religious Legitimization of the Russian Great Power, page 193