 the house of lorraine, the main and now only remaining line known as habsburg-lorraine, was one of the most important and longest-reigning royal houses in the history of europe.benjamin arnold. princes and territories in medieval germany. cambridge university press, 2004. isbn 0-521-52148-3. pages 263â264. currently the house is headed by karl habsburg-lothringen, the titular emperor of austria, king of hungary, bohemia, galicia and lodomeria, croatia, illyria, as well as the titular king of jerusalem.gordon brook-shepherd. uncrowned emperor: the life and times of otto von habsburg. continuum international publishing group, 2003. isbn 1-85285-439-1. pages xi, 179, 216. ==ancestry== ===house of ardennesâmetz=== the house claims descent from gerard i of paris (count of paris) (died 779) whose immediate descendants are known as the girardides. the matfridings of the 10th century are thought to have been a br
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