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See also:ARCHDUKE (See also:Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)
, a See also:title See also:peculiar now to the See also:Austrian royal See also:family
.
According to See also:Selden it denotes " an See also:excellency or pre-See also:eminence only, not a superiority or See also:power over other See also:dukes, as in See also:archbishop it doth over other bishops." Yet in this latter sense it would seem to have been assumed by See also:Bruno of See also:Saxony, archbishop of See also:Cologne, and See also:duke of See also:Lorraine (953—965), when he divided his duchy into the dukedoms of Upper and See also:Lower Lorraine
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The designation was, however, exceedingly rare during the See also:middle ages
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The title of See also:archduke of Lorraine ceased with the circumstances which had produced it
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The later dynasties of See also:Brabant and Lorraine, when these fiefs became hereditary, See also:bore only-the title of duke
.
The See also:house of See also:Habsburg, therefore, did not acquire this title with the See also:inheritance of the dukes of Lorraine
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Nor does it occur in any of the charters granted to the dukes of See also:Austria by the emperors; though in that creating the first duke of Austria the archiduces palatii, i.e. the See also:principal dukes of the See also:court, are mentioned
.
The " Archidux Austriae, seu Austriae inferioris 'i is spoken of by See also:
The title was also assumed for a See also:time, probably on the strength of the privilegium maius, by Duke Ernest of See also:Styria (d
.
1424); but it
did not legally belong to the house of Habsburg until 1453, when Duke Ernest's son, the emperor Frederick III
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(Frederick V., duke of Styria and See also:Carinthia, 1424-1493, of Austria, 1463-1493), confirmed the privilegium mains and conferred the title of archduke of Austria on his son See also:Maximilian and his heirs
.
The title archduke (or archduchess) is now See also:borne by all members of the Austrian imperial house
.
See See also: Kiinste (1842, pub. by See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber) ; A . See also:Huber, Ueber See also:die Entstehungszeit der oesterreichischen Freiheitsbriefe (See also:Vienna, 1860; W . Erben, See also:Des Privilegium Friedrichs I. See also:fur das Herzogtum Osterreich (Vienna, 1902) . |
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