Posted by Charles on 19/10/2009, 23:56:02
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As far as I know, the Archhouse of Austria was composed of the following lines, some of which might now be extinct (I cannot remember):
Austria proper
Austria-Tuscany
Austria-Modena (formally or informally a secundogeniture)
Austria-Hungary (Palatine)
Austria-Teschen
To what extent Austria-Hungary (Palatine) is a separate line still, I do not know. It wasn't sovereign. I think Austria-Teschen is extinct in the archducal sense (it was never sovereign either) but Austria-Modena, Austria-Tuscany and Austria proper were sovereign lines.
To what extent did the Modenese lines and Tuscan lines exert control over the titles of their agnatic descent born of marriages morganatic in terms of the Austrian proper line? For instance, were there ever or are there Habsburg-Lorraine princes and princesses of Tuscany who were not archdukes and archduchesses of Austria?
The reason this is of interest to me is that a very good friend of a very good friend of mine is a member of one of these lines. He has children who are titled counts and countesses of Habsburg-Lorraine, he is an archduke but for some reason his wife, in recent articles, is being titled archduchess. I have been trying to determine if she is a princess at the very least, let alone an archduchess, because I don't think Crown Prince Otto has been elevating any countesses of Habsburg-Lorraine to archduchesses.
Is Austria-Teschen extant genealogically even if the members of the line aren't archdukes and there is no Duke of Teschen?
Charles
