The outlook was no better on the international stage. No sooner had Maria Theresa assumed the throne than Frederick the Great ...

He added that some of the discovered items, such as rings, may have been worn by the rulers while they were alive—for example, the rings of Barbara Radziwiłł and Elizabeth Habsburg.

The conflict was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The Habsburg rulers moved quickly to re-establish dominance over their exhausted and war-torn lands; Marian columns sprang up all over ...

Schonbrunn Palace was mainly used as a summer residence by successive Habsburg dynasty rulers. Along with its gardens, the castle is listed as a World Cultural Heritage site. City officials ...