Royal Ancestor Construction and Veneration in the House of Habsburg
Royal Ancestor Construction and Veneration in the House of Habsburg
Focused on medieval-period Austria, this chapter explores how the Central European House of Habsburg deployed ancestors as part of a political strategy to link the dynasty and its members with the illustrious dead. Taking a liberal view of ancestorhood, Habsburgs such as Rudolph I and Maximilian I publicly visited and reused ancient burial places, intermarried with members of other dynasties in order to increase the prestige of their own, and occasionally manufactured—wholesale—the required genealogical documentation to bolster their kinship-based claims to royal status.
Keywords: ancestors, medieval period, Austria, Europe, genealogy, Habsburgs, royalty, politics
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