Salic Law Now I know that the passage about Austria being subject to Salic Law is quoted from a historian and therefore probably should stay there but from what I an Austrian have learned in school it s actually nonsense The Privilegium Minus expressedly gave the ruling family of Austria then the Babenbergs the right of female succession so at least the Archduchy of Austria itself shouldn t have been bound by Salic Succession Law Maybe only the other Habsburgian possessions within the Roman Empire were