Claudia de' Medici
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Claudia de' Medici was Regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son from 1632 until 1646.
Portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1626
County of Tyrol
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The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg. In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen, became a crown land of the Austrian Empire. From 1867, it was a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.
Tyrol Castle was the seat of the Counts of Tyrol and gave the region its name.
Andreas Hofer led the Tyrolean Rebellion against the invading French forces.
Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, heiress of the Meinhardin dynasty
Archduke Sigismund Francis, last of the Tyrolean line of the Habsburg dynasty