The powerful Habsburg dynasty ruled Spain and its empire from 1516 to 1700. Gut when King Charles II died childless, the male line died out and the French Bourbon dynasty came to power in Spain.

May 9 -- FRIDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- Members of the powerful Habsburg royal family ruled Spain for centuries until the dynasty died out at the beginning of the 18th century. Now, a new study ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost six centuries after the Habsburg family seat was established in Vienna by the arthritic Albert the Lame, ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg, and refused to ...

The House of Habsburg occupied the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from 1438-1740. Generations of intermarriage secured the family's influence across an European empire including Spain and Austria for ...

Many of the kings and queens of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which ruled across Europe from the 16th to the start of the 18th century, had a distinctive facial deformity: an elongated jaw that later ...

THE jutting 'Habsburg jaw' - a facial deformity common to the European royal family of the same name - was the results of centuries of inbreeding, according to a new study. Generations of ...

A portrait (by Juan Carreño de Miranda) of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburg kings, and his father, Philip IV (painted by Diego Velázquez, of whom the king was a patron). Both men had ...

Opulent European arms and armor, works of decorative art, tapestries and celebrated Old Master paintings ― all hailing from the former imperial and royal court of Vienna ― have landed at the National ...