Overview
In 867 the eastern crowns are Carolingian. In 1066 the emperor is Henry IV of the Salian dynasty. In 1178 the emperor is Frederick Barbarossa of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. The Habsburg name in the late twelfth century is Habsburg Castle in the Aargau, a Swabian county house inside Barbarossa's empire.
The 1178 table below is Barbarossa's imperial card. The dynasty row on it reads Hohenstaufen. Henry IV's 1066 card, linked further down, is the Salian empire of the previous bookmark.
Starts
1178
The imperial seat of 1178 is Frederick Barbarossa. Legnano was in 1176. He drowned on crusade in 1190. A Habsburg count in this decade is a castle lord in the Aargau and in the Swabian orbit, living under that empire.
Henry IV, linked with Barbarossa below, is the 1066 Salian emperor. His reign is the Investiture Controversy, a century before this bookmark. He is context for the throne, and he is not a Habsburg ancestor on the imperial card.
| Seat | Detail |
|---|---|
| Start | 1178 |
| Title | Holy Roman Empire |
| Realm size | 197 counties |
| Status | Independent |
| Faith | Catholicism |
| Dynasty | Hohenstaufen |
Later impact
Count Rudolf of Habsburg was elected King of the Romans in 1273, after the Hohenstaufen line had failed and the Great Interregnum had left the princes to choose. That election falls inside a campaign that starts in 1178. Crusader Kings 3 campaigns end in 1453, so Rudolf's generation is still on the playable timeline. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburg empires are not.
In 1282 Rudolf invested his sons with Austria and Styria. Those duchies, not the Aargau castle, became the house's center. Later elections put Habsburg kings on the German throne for long stretches. The Burgundian inheritance and the crowns of Spain lie after 1453.
Played from 1178, the house is a county that can grow toward an election. Played from 867 or 1066, the same throne is Karling and then Salian, and the castle that will lend the Habsburgs their name is not yet the story of the empire. Henry IV's page is that 1066 empire. Barbarossa's page is the 1178 one.
Historical links
- Frederick Barbarossa · 1178 · Holy Roman Empire
- Henry IV · 1066 · Holy Roman Empire
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