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Framedl 2026-09-03 1/6*
The Habsburg motto: let others wage war - you, happy Austria, marry. Six centuries of strategic unions built a prodigious empire without much fighting for it.
Generations of cousin and uncle-niece matches produced Charles II of Spain, painted here by Carreño de Miranda, a lion with its paw on the globe at his elbow. He couldn't chew properly and left no heir.
The line ended in 1700, and Europe went to war over the succession anyway.
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