How to pronounce “habsburg” in English

So one of the Habsburg kings, Leopold I, in the second half of the 17th century, was pretty unkindly nicknamed

And the Habsburgs started from relatively humble beginnings in the Duchy of Swabia, up here in what is Northern Switzerland today.

So the Habsburgs really were the grandmasters of the Game of Thrones.

But this single dominion of the Habsburg Empire was split after Charles V between his brother

and his son to create the Spanish Habsburg dynasty and the Central European branch of that family.

And it's within that Spanish Habsburg dynasty that this program of strategic royal marriages

But even more notably in the Habsburg family was their sharply jutting out lower jaw, to such an extent that the top and lower rows of teeth

But there are even more severe consequences for the Habsburgs of that inbreeding.

all being concentrated in this last king of the Spanish Habsburgs.

across Europe, being masterminded by the Habsburg King Maximilian I-- his own marriage was arranged to the heiress

And in the early 16th century, the Habsburg King Charles V became the first ruler in human history to reign over an empire upon which the sun never set.

Long, long before the British Empire, it was the Habsburg Empire that encircled the world.

And this is the so-called Habsburg jaw.

going to his great great great great grandson Charles II, we see that increasingly pronounced Habsburg jaw

the most influential dynasty in European history, were the Habsburgs.

And you'll see on this map, even England, for a short period, was within this Habsburg dominion when Philip II of Spain married Queen Mary I in 1554.

So the map we see in the bottom here is all of the territories around the world that the Habsburgs came to rule over,

Now, the most conspicuous aspect of that consanguinous marriages, those inbreeding within the Spanish Habsburgs,