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The coats of arms of the House of Habsburg were the heraldic emblems of their members and their territories, such as Austria-Hungary and the Austrian Empire.Historian Michel Pastoureau says that the original purpose of heraldic emblems and seals was to facilitate the exercise of power and the identification of the ruler, due to what they offered for achieving these aims.
1440–1493 : Frederick III of Habsburg (1415 † 1493), crowned in 1452 Gules a fess argent ( Babenberg , adopted by Rudolph I (d.1291), King of Germany, of the House of Habsburg, having obtained the former Babenberg Duchies of Austria and Styria, in lieu of his paternal arms ( Or, a lion rampant gules crowned armed and langued azure ).
Lesser Coat of arms of Cisleithania and Transleithania under the Imperial Crown and the Crown of Saint Stephen resp., linked by the crowned Habsburg-Lorraine armorials, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the motto indivisibiliter ac inseparabiliter (same as 1915 version with Croatia added to lesser arms of the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen)
Another example (the archducal hat of Joseph II) was made for Joseph II in 1764 for his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt, of which only the metal frame remains today. Another insignia of the Habsburg rulers is the ducal hat of Styria , which is kept in the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz , Styria .
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Coat of arms of Charles V of Habsburg as King of the Romans. Escutcheon, Greater Coat of Arms Personal Coat of arms The first and fourth quarters represents holdings derived from the Spanish crowns: that is, the quartered arms of Castile and Leon themselves quartered with the quartered arms of Aragon and Sicily .
Heraldic plaque dated to 1466 with Habsburg motto F.I. A.E.I.O.U. Left part is Habsburg fesse coat of arms and right part is Counts of Celje coat of arms, united under Imperial double-headed eagle A.E.I.O.U. monogram of Frederick III Sundial in Meran (now Italy) featuring an A.E.I.O.U. inscription
Austrian heraldry are the armorial bearings (known as armory) and other heraldic symbols once used by the Austrian monarchy.They are closely related to German heraldry, as Austria is a Germanophone country, but it show some particularities of their own, partly due to the mutual influence to and from the lands of the former Habsburg monarchy.