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Tervuren Castle by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Tervuren Castle (Dutch: Kasteel van Tervuren; French: Château de Tervueren) was a moated castle constructed by the dukes of Brabant, which later became a royal residence and hunting lodge for the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands. It was located in Tervuren, Belgium, just outside Brussels. It was ...
Habsburg Castle (German: Schloss Habsburg, pronounced [ˌʃlɔs ˈhaːpsbʊʁk] ⓘ) is a medieval fortress located in what is now Habsburg, Switzerland, in the canton of Aargau, near the Aar River. At the time of its construction, the location was part of the Duchy of Swabia .
The Habsburg Netherlands was a geo-political entity covering the whole of the Low Countries (i.e. the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the modern French départements of Nord and Pas-de-Calais) from 1482 to 1581. The northern Low Countries began growing from 1200 CE, with the drainage and flood control of land, which ...
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. Tervuren was one of the main summer retreats of the dukes of Brabant and their successors, the Burgundian dukes and the governors of the Habsburg Netherlands. [1] [2] They primarily used Tervuren Castle as a basis to hunt in the surrounding Sonian Forest.
The House of Habsburg (/ ˈ h æ p s b ɜːr ɡ /; German: Haus Habsburg [haʊs ˈhaːpsbʊrk] ⓘ), also known as the House of Austria, [note 6] was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history. [3] [4]
The Empire of Charles V, also known as the Habsburg Empire, included the Habsburg hereditary lands in central Europe, the kingdoms of Spain, the colonial Spanish Empire, the kingdom of Naples, the Habsburg Netherlands and other territories and principalities across Europe.
Charles of Austria was born on 24 February 1500 in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city of the Habsburg Netherlands, to Philip of Austria and Joanna of Trastámara. [33] His father Philip, nicknamed Philip the Handsome , was the firstborn son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor , Archduke of Austria , and Mary of Burgundy , heiress to the ...
Castle Construction date Location Image Baarlo Castle: Maasbree, Limburg: Bleijenbeek Castle: Bleijenbeek, Limburg: Château Neercanne: Maastricht, Limburg: Château ...