Between the 15th to 20th centuries, the Habsburgs — a German-Austrian royal family — were one of the major European dynasties. They ruled over Austria from 1282 to 1918, controlled Hungary and ...

A portrait (by Juan Carreño de Miranda) of Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburg kings, and his father, Philip IV (painted by Diego Velázquez, of whom the king was a patron). Both men had ...