Chapter 630: The Glorious Habsburgs
The Habsburgs are the most important, most influential, and most extensive royal family in European history, and its family origins have a history of more than 1,500 years.
In the sixth century AD, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan took the Sui and established the Tang Dynasty, and during the same period, the Frankish Kingdom of Europe was established. In what is now the region of Alsace in northeastern France, the Duke of Alsace in the Frankish kingdom also established his own fiefdom.
At the beginning of the 11th century, Li Yuanhao in Chinese mainland established Western Xia in war, and the Alsace family in Europe gradually expanded its territory to the Aargau canton on the border between Switzerland and Germany after 400 years, and built a huge castle there, the Eagle Castle, which was named 'Habsburg', and the family took this surname.
In the middle of the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan established the Mongol Yuan Empire. In Europe, the Habsburg Grand Duke Rudolf I was crowned King of Germany, and the Habsburgs began their 600-year rule over the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1556 AD, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song, leaned towards the opposition, and in Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ceded the throne of Spain and the Archduke of Austria to family members, and let their respective descendants inherit their own thrones, which were not passed on to each other. Since then, the Habsburg royal family has officially split into the Austrian Habsburgs and the Spanish Habsburgs.
In 1700 AD, the Kangxi Emperor was distressed that he had too many sons, and formed a party with each other to spy on the throne, but the Spanish king Carlos II in Europe had no choice but to pass the throne to his nephew, Duke Philip from the Bourbon royal family, ending the Habsburg family's rule over Spain for five generations. The Bourbon royal family continues to this day, and the current King of Spain, Juan Carlos, is a descendant of Duke Philip.
In the 11th year after losing the throne, the Spanish Habsburgs lost their last stronghold in Barcelona in the war with the Franks, and the Spanish Habsburgs slowly disappeared into the dust of history.
In 1740, Emperor Qianlong 'changed the land and returned to the stream' and sent troops to pacify the Tusi of Hunan and Guizhou. At the same time, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI died, as neither he nor his brother left a son, so his eldest daughter Maria Theresa inherited the throne of the Archduke of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, while his son-in-law, Franz I, Duke of Lorraine, was elected Holy Roman Emperor the following year.
After that, Emperor Franz I added his wife's surname in front of his own, and their descendants all adopted the surname "Habsburg-Lorraine". From then on, Austria entered the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty.
In 1805, the peasant uprising in Shaanxi, Sichuan and Chu was suppressed by the Jiaqing Emperor, and the Qing Dynasty gradually declined from this year. In the same year, the French Emperor Napoleon defeated the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia, and forced Franz II to dissolve the Holy Rome the following year.
With the establishment of the German Confederation, the Holy Roman Empire, which had lasted for nearly 900 years, was destroyed, and the Habsburg-Lorraine royal family lost most of Europe.
In 1866, Sun Yat-sen was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong. In Europe, the last lord of the Habsburg family, Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was crowned King of Hungary, established the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and assumed the title of Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He has a queen who is unparalleled in the world - Princess Sissi.
In 1918, the First World War was defeated by the Central Powers of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, and Austria was established as a republic. At this point, the Habsburgs and the Habsburg-Lorraine family completely lost their 600-year throne, the royal family was gone, and the family members fled to the Americas for refuge.
The Habsburg royal family retired from the stage of history, but their illustrious family history established itself as the number one power in Europe. Because of their long history and far-reaching influence, these royal families in Europe today are related to the Habsburgs in different distances, and even almost all the senior nobles are related to them.
It was not until the end of World War II that the last crown prince, Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine, begged the Austrian government in the United States for permission and the members of the Habsburg-Lorraine family were able to return to Vienna and many of the family assets were returned. Now 95 years old, Otto is the head of the Habsburg family and has represented Germany in the European Parliament.
As the only direct descendant of the great Emperor Franz Joseph I and Princess Sissi, the Koukou family and their family had little or no contact with the head of the family, Otto. All of this comes from a story with twists and turns.
After Princess Sisi and Emperor Franz Joseph got married, they were not as happy as described in film and television literature, although the husband and wife were very affectionate, but the things in the royal palace compound were by no means as simple as a small couple living a life. Princess Sissi, who is happy and innocent by nature, is very uncomfortable with all kinds of harsh red tape in the court, and she has many frictions with her mother-in-law and Queen Mother Sophie, and the Queen Mother says that she is a 'wild girl from the countryside'.
Moreover, the first problem faced by Princess Sissi is to give birth to an heir to the throne and a son for her husband.
The males of the Habsburg family may have genetic problems, and the population has not been vigorous for more than a thousand years, and the Habsburgs in Spain and the Habsburgs in Austria have to interrupt their inheritance because of the extinction of their heirs. In Habsburg-Lorraine, the genes have changed, but it is still not easy to have a son.
In the first two years of marriage, Princess Sisi gave birth to two daughters, the eldest daughter, Archduchess Sophia, died at the age of more than two, and the second daughter, Archduchess Gisela, was not in good health. It wasn't until four years after their marriage that Princess Sisi gave birth to his and the emperor's only son, Rudolph.
Like the previous two daughters, the son was taken away and raised by the Queen Mother when he was born, and it was difficult for Sissi to take a look at her child, and this son was even more unseen all year round. The beautiful princess Sissi is anxious and gradually becomes depressed, and it is rumored that she has severe depression.
Crown Prince Rudolph grew up slowly, but because he didn't have much contact with his mother, he didn't have much intimacy, and he had a better relationship with his grandmother, and he was very estranged from Sissi, and even disgusted his mother. The contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is instilled in the minds of future generations, and the Queen Mother Sophie is a bad old woman.
When Rudolph was 19 years old, Princess Sisi persuaded him not only to be interested in natural science and ore collecting, but also to focus on his status as the crown prince of the empire. Rudolph had a big fight with his mother and then walked away.
The very sad princess Sissi told her husband, and then took her entourage and escort to Florence to relax, and thus there was that colorful flower alley.
In fact, Rudolph and his mother's personalities are very similar, both of them are free and romantic, but they can't say that they are together, and Princess Sisi often weeps alone for this.
Princess Sissi, who grew up carefree since childhood, is very kind-hearted, her innocent, cute and joyful personality can infect the people around her, and her husband is also deeply fascinated by her and loves her very much. After becoming the queen of the empire, Princess Sissi was graceful and friendly to the world, deeply loved by the people, and the queen was also very kind to her people, her warm smile warmed the hearts of every citizen who came into contact with her, and the queen did not dislike the vulgarity and dirtiness of the ordinary toiling masses in the slightest, and never looked at them with the bad eyes of the nobles and the lowly people.
Princess Sissi was supposed to be a happy angel on earth, but being the queen made her suffer a lot, and great bad news was coming to her.
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