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This is a list of the Austrian empresses, archduchesses, duchesses and margravines, wives of the rulers of Austria. The monarchy in Austria was abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918.
Contents
- Albertinian Line
- Leopoldinian line
- Claimant Duchesses
- Lower Austria
- Upper Austria
- Inner Austria
- Reunited and redivided again
- United again
- References
The different titles lasted just a little under a millennium, 976 to 1918.
Albertinian Line
Albert III received the Archduchy of Austria, later called Lower Austria.
Leopoldinian line
Main line
Leopold III received the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, the County of Tyrol and Further Austria.
In 1406, the Leopoldinian lines split their territories:
Ernestine line
The Ernestine line received the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, also called Inner Austria:
Elder Tyrolean line
The Elder Tyrolean Line received Tyrol and soon also Further Austria. These territories were also called Upper Austria:
Claimant Duchesses
Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, claimed the Austrian territories and occupied Austria proper and Styria. Claiming the title "Duke of Austria", he resided in Vienna from 1485 to his death in 1490.
Lower Austria
Lower Austria (Austria proper) passed to Ferdinand's 1st son Maximilian:
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (Tyrol, Further Austria) passed to Emperor Ferdinand's 2nd son Ferdinand:
Inner Austria
Inner Austria ("Inner-Österreich") (Styria, Carinthia and Carniola) passed to Emperor Ferdinand's 3rd son Charles:
Reunited and redivided, again
The Austrian territories were reunited again by inheritance in 1619 under Ferdinand III, Archduke of Inner Austria, but in 1623 five years into the Thirty Years' War he had so much to do with, Ferdinand divided them yet again, when he made his younger brother Leopold, who had been governor over Upper Austria, Archduke of those territories.
Lower Austria
Lower Austria and Inner Austria remained with the elder line (Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor):
Upper Austria
Upper Austria passed to the Younger Tyrolean Line:
United again
The Austrian territories were conclusively reunited in 1665 under: