Francis and Maria Theresa's daughters Marie Antoinette and Maria Carolina became Queens of France and Naples-Sicily, respectively; while their sons Joseph II and Leopold II succeeded to the imperial title. Louis XIV's imperialist ambitions (which involved the occupation of Lorraine in 1669–97) forced the dukes into a permanent alliance with his archenemies, the Holy Roman Emperors from the House of Habsburg. 1847 – Marie Louise died without issue, Tuscany: From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. In 1792, Leopold's son, Francis II, was crowned emperor in Frankfurt. See Brook-Shepherd 179. https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=House_of_Lorraine&oldid=1179362, Articles lacking reliable references from August 2012, Wikipedia articles incorporating an MLCC with a warning, Commons category link is defined as the pagename, Royal houses of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. In … Brook-Shepherd also notes that morganatic alliances were not forbidden by ancient Magyar laws. Flavia Foradini, "Otto d'Asburgo. [8] It was at Nancy, the former capital of the House of Vaudemont, that the crown prince married Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen in 1951. Mexico:1867 – Maximilian I executed by Liberal revolutionaries. Apart from the core Habsburg dominions, including the triple crowns of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, several junior branches of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine reigned in the Italian duchies of Tuscany (until 1860), Parma (until 1847) and Modena (until 1859). [1] Its senior agnates are the Dukes of Hohenberg, although the house is currently 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. from John I (Yolande's great-grandfather) via his younger son Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (1346–1390), Antoine, Count of Vaudémont (c. 1395–1431) and Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont (1417–1470). [5], After a brief interlude of 1453–1473, when the duchy passed in right of Charles's daughter to her husband John of Calabria, a Capetian, Lorraine reverted to the House of Vaudemont, a junior branch of House of Lorraine, in the person of René II who later added to his titles that of Duke of Bar.[6]. 1 Transcontinental country. After the beheading of the French sovereigns, he, along with the other European sovereigns created the First Coalition against Revolutionary France. Louis XIV's imperialist ambitions (which involved the occupation of Lorraine in 1669–97) forced the dukes into a permanent alliance with his archenemies, the Holy Roman Emperors from the House of Habsburg. In 1916 Franz Joseph died and was succeeded by Charles I. Charles – the last sovereign – upon losing the war, renounced the exercise of power, but did not abdicate. The Matfridings of the 10th century are thought to have been a branch of the family;[2] at the turn of the 10th century they were Counts of Metz and ruled a set of lordships in Alsace and Lorraine. [3], What is more securely demonstrated is that in 1048 Emperor Henry III gave the Duchy of Upper Lorraine first to Adalbert of Metz and then to his brother Gerard whose successors (collectively known as the House of Alsace or the House of Châtenois) retained the duchy until the death of Charles the Bold in 1431. At Charles's death in 1740 the Habsburg lands passed to Maria Theresa and Francis, who was later elected Holy Roman Emperor as Francis I. Brooklyn-born actress Lorraine Bracco is far from home in her new HGTV series. The French Wars of Religion saw the rise of a junior branch of the Lorraine family, the House of Guise, which became a dominant force in French politics and, during the later years of Henri III's reign, was on the verge of succeeding to the throne of France. Karl is the eldest grandson of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I. Following the failure of both Emperor Joseph I and Emperor Charles VI to produce a son and heir, the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 left the throne to the latter's yet unborn daughter, Maria Theresa. L'ultimo atto di una dinastia", mgs press, Trieste, 2004. The law of exile still applies to the descendants of Emperor Charles under the same conditions. By the marriage of Francis of Lorraine to Maria Theresa in 1736, and with the success in the ensuing There are Habsburg-Lorraine descendants not descended from Otto who continue to live abroad due to their unwillingness to renounce their succession rights to the former Austrian throne. The House of Habsburg-Lorraine refused to swear its allegiance to the new Republic of Austria, therefore family members were forced into exile and their property was confiscated. [6] Mary of Guise, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, also came from this family. The House of Lorraine (German: Haus Lothringen) originated as a cadet branch of the House of Metz. In 1900, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (then heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne) contracted a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek. Following the failure of both Emperor Joseph I and Emperor Charles VI to produce a son and heir, the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 left the throne to the latter's yet unborn daughter, Maria Theresa. [7] Mary of Guise, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, also came from this family.