Memoirs of the Court Aristocracy And Diplomacy of Austria
Contributors: Franz Demmler (Translator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781417919376
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History - General History; History; History: World; Central Europe; Europe - Austria & Hungary
First sentence: THE founder of the Austrian monarchy as an European power was the Emperor Maximilian I. Rodolph of Habsburg, the first of the dynasty, had laid the foundation of the family estate of the House of Austria; under Maximilian it was, by three fortunate marriages, raised to the rank of the first empire of the civilised world.