Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became hei
Portrait by Benjamin von Block, c. 1672
Young Leopold by anonymous, c. 1660
Leopold I, painted by Guido Cagnacci (1657–1658)
Leopold I column (1673) in Trieste
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Joseph I was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of N
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
…Bratislava) changed the constitution; the right of the Habsburgs to succeed to the throne without election was admitted and the emperor's elder son Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor was crowned hereditary King of Hungary. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had been a political defeat for the Habsburgs. It ended the idea that Europe…
Portrait by Frans van Stampart, c. 1705
Archduke Joseph at the age of six (by Benjamin Block, 1684)
Joseph I by Johann Rudolf Huber, 1702
Tomb of the emperor in the Imperial Crypt, Vienna