Habsburgian
English
Alternative forms
- Hapsburgian
Adjective
Habsburgian (not comparable)
- (historical) Of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.
- 1995, Olaf Mörke, 5: The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results, Karel Davids, C. A. Davids, Jan Lucassen (editors), A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, page 145,
- It was an attempt to preserve the teutsche Libertät, the autonomy of the imperial Estates against Habsburgian efforts to gain absolute power.
- 2001, Charles F. Walker, Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert M. Joseph (editors), Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times, page 49,
- 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.
- 2008, Jörg Ulbert, Chapter 3: France and German Dualism, 1756-1871, C. Germond, H. Türk (editors), A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe, page 40,
- 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.
- 1995, Olaf Mörke, 5: The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results, Karel Davids, C. A. Davids, Jan Lucassen (editors), A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, page 145,
Noun
Habsburgian (plural Habsburgians)
- (historical) A Habsburg, a member of the Habsburg dynastic family.
- 1985, Peter Bernholz, The International Game of Power: Past, Present and Future, page 34,
- 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.
- 1994, Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold, The Classical Tradition and the Americas, page 510,
- 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).
- 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,
- 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.
- 1985, Peter Bernholz, The International Game of Power: Past, Present and Future, page 34,