THE HOUSE OF HABS'BURG.

The House of Habs'Burg, also called the House of Austria, was one of the most influential royal houses of Europa. A series of dynastic marriages enabled the family to vastly expand its domains to include Burgundy, Spain and its colonial empire, Bohemia, Hungary, and other territories.
The name comes from one of the first progenitors of the Habs'Burg dynasty Radbot(with his 2 brothers, Werner  and Rudolph I), Count of the Habs'Burg (985-1045 CE), also known as Radbot of Klettgau on the High Rhine in Swabia. The High Rhine is the name used in Germany for the part of the Rhine that flows Westbound from Lake Constance to Basel. The Lake is situated in Germany, Switzer'Land, and Austria near the Alps. The Rhine flows into the Lake from the South, with its original course forming the Austria-Swiss border, and has its outflow on the Lower Lake where -except for Schaff'Hausen (Northern most canton)- forms the German-Swiss border.
Radbot built the castle, as a fortress, in 1020s, in present-day Swit'zer'Land, in the area of Aar'Gau, and chose to name his fortress Habs-Burg. His grandson Otto II was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "Count of Habs'Burg" to his title. The House gathered dynastic momentum through the 11th,12th and 13th centuries.
In 1027, Radbot established the Abbey of Muri, built up by Benedictine monks descending from Einsiedeln Abbey. His older brother was Bishop Werner I of Strass'Bourg from 1001 until his death in 1028. Werner was one of the last bishops to be appointed by Otto III, Roman Emperor. In 1000 CE, through this emperor, OttoIII, the influence of the interpretation of Christianity was extended to Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary, and the first Christian king was crowned in Hungary.
The Einsiedeln Abbey in which the Bennedictine monks housed themselves, was in the canton of Schwyz, Switzer'Land, and was known as a major resting point on the Way of St. James for centuries. Tradition states that the remains of the apostle are buried in that area and many follow its routes as a form of spiritual path or retreat for their spiritual growth. The route has a number of resting stops towards the shrine in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
In ancient times the area was controlled by Helvetians, a member of the Celt tribal groups, as far back as 200 BC. The area was eventually occupied by the Romans and then by the 6th CE, by the Franks. The name Helvetii is derived from Gaulish 'elu'-, meaning "gain, prosperity, or multitude," cognate with Welsh 'elw' an old Irish prefix 'il,' meaning "many" or "multiple." The second part of the name has been interpreted as 'etu'-, meaning "terrain, grassland," thus interpreting the full name as "rich land."
In the medieval times, the area was a disputed border region between the duchies of Alamannia and Burgundy.
The fertile undulating tract nearby the area, named the Wetterau,  holds a long history and is one of the oldest cultural landscapes that exists in the today World. It was always a fertile region and was populous from as early at the 10,000 BC. Artifacts from successive civilizations that populated the area also exist, being the most prominent discoveries the tombs from Bronze Age. The area also was of high strategic relevance for the Romans during its advance into Germania. After the end of the Germanic and Gallic wars (58-51 BC) a number of Roman forts and roads were built in the Wetterau area. The fortifications were a border defense or delimiting system of ancient Rome, they marked the boundaries and provinces of their empire.
During the 8th to 11 CE, a clan of Franconian counts and dukes (the Corandines) related by blood to Louis the Child (893-911), king of East France (899-911), and last ruler of Carolingian dynasty, intermittently held the countship of Aargau from 750 until about 1030CE. The Carolingians were a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfin and Pippinid clans of the 7th CE. The name 'Carol' derives from 'kerlin,' meaning 'descendant of Charles Martel' (Latin for Carolus). They became the real power behind the Merovingian throne.
During 1138-1254 CE, the House of Staufen, a dynasty of German Kings controlled the area. The name comes for their seat at the Staufen Castle, which was in turn named for a nearby conical hill of the Swabian Alps. It is a region bounded by the Danube in the South East and the upper Neckar in the North West. In the South West the Alps rises to higher mountains that forms the Black Forest. Three member of this dynasty were crowned Roman emperors: Frederick I, Henry IV, and Frederick II.
From the extinction in 1254 of the House of Staufen until 1415, the area was ruled by the House of Habs'Burg, and many castles from that time still stand (examples include Habs'Burg, Lenz'Burg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin, and Wild'Egg).
By 1276 CE, Count Radbot's seven generation descendant of Rudolf  of the House of Habs'Burg, moved the family's power base from the Castle to the Duchy of Austria. Rudolph had become King of Germany in 1273, and the dynasty was truly entrenched in 1276 when Rudolph became ruler of Austria, which lasted until 1918.
The throne of the Roman Empire was continuously occupied by the Habs'Burgs between 1438-1740.
From the House of Habs'Burgs also came emperors (kings) of the Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic), Kingdom of Eng'Land (by right of his wife), Kingdom of Germany, Kingdom of Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Ireland, Kingdom of Portugal, and Spain, as well as rulers of several Dutch and Italian principalities.
In the 16th century, the house separated the family into senior Habs'Burg Spain, and junior Habs'Burg Monarchy branches, and the mutual claims were settled in the secret Treaty of Onate on July 29, 1617.
Philip III, Spanish king of the senior Habs'Burg reached an agreement with the junior Habs'Burg Ferdinand II, Austrian Archduke. The senior Spanish branch ended upon the death of Charles II in 1700 and was replaced by the House of Borbon, a branch of the Capetian dynasty founded by Hugh Capet's male line descendants. It is among the largest and oldest royal houses in Europe and the World of Franco origin. The remaining Austrian branch became extinct in the male line in 1740 with the death of Charles VI, and completely in 1780 with the death of his eldest daughter Maria Theresa of Austria. It was succeeded by the Vaude'Mont branch of the House of Lorraine styling itself as the House of Habs'Burg-Lorraine.
The Habs'Burgs also founded a number of monasteries (with some structures enduring, e.g., in Wettingen (members of the Cistercian Order called the Bernardines, the term is also used of the Franciscan  Order in Poland and Lithuania) and Muri (near Basel, Switzer'Land and formerly part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire), the closing of which was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war in 1847.
In the New World, the Habs'Burg-Lorraine, produced the first emperor in the Second Mexican Empire under a limited hereditary monarchy by the European Assembly of Notable people on July 10, 1863, during the 2nd French intervention in Mexico. It was created with the support of Napoleon III of France, who attempted to establish a monarchist ally in the Americas. A referendum confirmed Austrian Ferdinand Maximilian, as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. Support came mainly from a rich and conservative elite of Catholics, supported by the French, which were a majority within the public affairs in Mexico. The monarchy came to an end with the execution of Maximilian I on June 19, 1867.