Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
House of Habsburg title. The House of Habsburg gathered dynastic momentum through the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. By 1276, Count Radbot's seventh generation descendant Rudolph of Habsburg moved the family's power base from Habsburg Castle to the Duchy of Austria. Rudolph became King of Germany in 1273, and the dynasty of the House of Habsburg was truly entrenched in 1276 when Rudolph became ruler of Austria, which the Habsburgs ruled until 1918. A series of dynastic marriages enabled the family to vastly expand its domains to include Burgundy, Spain and its colonial empire, Bohemia, Hungary, and other territories. In the 16th century,
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 Award from the Society for Military History, and the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 is an award-winning book on World War I by Alexander Watson. A reviewer for "The Wall Street Journal" described Watson's book as making "a truly indispensable contribution in allowing us to see from the inside out this disastrous alliance between Austria and imperial Germany." Historian Ben Shephard writing for "The Guardian" described it as "the most important of the current crop of books" on World War I.