Title: The Habsburgs.
Authors: McGuigan, Dorothy Gies.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1966
Subjects: Habsburg, House of.
Abstract: Personal lives of a royal family that made history for six centuries.
Contents: I. Habsburg ancestor -- II. Habsburgs in the marriage market: Maximilian I -- The wedding in Burgundy -- The dowry -- Troubles and glory -- Brides lost and won -- Kaiser Max: His image -- The Spanish marriage: Philip the handsome and Juana the mad -- The children of Malines -- Durer's last portrait -- III. The one world of Charles V -- Heir to the world -- Family matters -- A momentous election -- The seamless coat -- Years of triumph -- The padlocked heart -- The seamless coat torn -- Brothers' quarrel -- Exile -- IV. Austrian and Spanish cousins -- Ferdinand's family -- The Turkish Scimitar -- heresy in the family circle -- Archduke Ferdinand and Philippina Welser -- Young Maximilian gives in -- Last days of Ferdinand -- A Spanish education -- Maximilian II, a Via Media -- A question of breeding -- The court of Rudolf II -- Matthias: Monarch of the Seven M's -- V. Habsburgs at bay: Protestant and Turk -- Ferdinand II -- A wartime bride -- Leopold I: An unwilling emperor --^