Original sentence: It has only ever been continuously borne by princes of the House of Habsburg and later through the female line into the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.Like Grand prince (often rendered as Grand Duke, actually a lower rank; the German equivalent is Großfürst, not Großherzog; the main cases were Lithuania, which in 1386 formed a personal union with Poland, and Moscovia, the nucleus of the later imperial Russia till its ruler assumed the sovereign style Tsar of royal rank, still later Emperor) in imperial Russia, archduke was used for non-(sovereign) rulers as a titular rank for princes of the Austrian ruling house of Habsburg, in chief of an Austrian homeland but without becoming its hereditary ruler (occasionally it might be combined with a separate gubernatorial mandate), as all territories remained vested in the Austrian crown.The title of Archduke (feminine: Archduchess) (German: Erzherzog, feminine form: Erzherzogin) denotes a rank above Duke and under King, but is too rare and yet has uses too diverse to be given a fixed relative position within the former Holy Roman Empire to which it was restricted
Edited sentence: It has only ever been continuously borne by princes of the House of Habsburg and later its branch House of Habsburg-Lorraine.Like Grand prince (often confusingly rendered as Grand Duke, actually a lower rank; the German equivalent is Großfürst, not Großherzog; the main cases were Lithuania, which in 1386 formed a personal union with Poland, and Moscovia, the nucleus of the later imperial Russia till its ruler assumed the sovereign style Tsar of royal rank, still later Emperor) in imperial Russia, archduke was used for non-(sovereign) rulers as a titular rank for princes of the Austrian ruling house of Habsburg, in chief of an Austrian homeland but without becoming its hereditary ruler (occasionally it might be combined with a separate gubernatorial mandate), as all territories remained vested in the Austrian crown.The title of Archduke (feminine: Archduchess) (German: Erzherzog, feminine (usually spousal) form: Erzherzogin) denotes a rank above Duke and under King, but is too rare and yet has uses too diverse to be given a fixed relative position within the former Holy Roman Empire to which it was restricted