Dukes Of Austria
The Duchy of Austria was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1156 according to the so-called Privilegium Minus, when the former March of Austria (Ostarrîchi) was ultimatively detached from the Duchy of Bavaria and became a duchy in its own right.
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“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)