Allen Lane; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by Basic Books in August; $32.early hints that the union of Philip of Habsburg with Juana the Mad in 1496 might not be a happy one.
Martyn Rady’s new book is billed as “the definitive history” of the clan. Not, it must be said, a hotly contested title. Once the names of Europe’s most powerful families—the Bourbons and Battenbergs and Garibaldis—were known across the world. Today, beyond the biscuit tin, they are largely forgotten.
The result was less a family tree, branching and widening, than a convoluted web. At one point the mortality rate of Habsburg children reached 80%, four times the average of the time. Of those who lived, many were hideously misshapen, with the infamous drooping lip and jutting Habsburg jaw. It is one of the abiding puzzles of European history that its aristocrats, so good at breeding horses, should have been so bad at breeding themselves.
Like a glacier, their rule could have a chilling effect on the lands beneath it. Voltaire famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire; but the Habsburgs, who presided over it for more than 300 years, often had other ideas. In the 16th century Philip II, convinced he had a divine mission to preserve Catholicism, exported the Spanish Inquisition to the New World. It did its job so effectively that even tattoos were censored.
wow
'Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube'
Lost their chins on the way
Had the Hadsburg’s known then what is known now, the practise of consanguineous marriage should have been limited to once per bloodline with descendants of such an ‘inbreeding’ then obliged to mate outside of the family. It would have spared a Charles II from having been born
The Habsburgs and bourbons are the old enermy and fighting forever
Wyd
They appear to have been able to take it on the chin though.
Bank account on point but their souls went bankrupt, damn Europe aka RoyalFamily . In bankruptcy court, you have to show the court your balance sheet 😂🇲🇱
Thank goodness!
A lesson in marrying for property?
How did it work out for the Rothschilds?
This is what you’re choosing to editorialize about right now?
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Please give me your blessings ITProfess_Actor to improve myself.......to be able to change our planet in the RIGHT direction. I NEED A LOT OF BLESSINGS. I WOULD BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO YOU. I'm asking for blessings from GOD/ALLAH/SHIV/etc. also.
You've been on a roll this past week
No. Not a bad at breeding at all. For every aristocracy heir, there are at least five bastards.
What a wonderfully witty way of describing them😅
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I have no idea what your contribution is to the modern economy.
It’s because they were interested in land and money not speed, legs, and spirit.
Son sus costumbres y hay que respetarlas.
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