A Little Background...

The Holy Roman Empire rested on two lofty ambitions: the unity of all Christians in a single state as the civil counterpart to the Catholic Church; along with the concept of hierarchical political organization that called for one ultimate ruler of Christendom.

The Hapsburg Dynasty

The Hapsburg dynasty dominated central Europe for close to 700 years from the 13th to the 20th century. To put this in perspective consider that the total history of the United States of America is less than half that. As one soon finds out, comprehending all this history in one unified unit becomes a daunting task.

Today the Hapsburgs no longer rule, although the legal status of some of their former possessions in Austria, their traditional hereditary land, is still before the Republic of Austria's courts.

Scholars have deemed the Hapsburgs as one of the most prominent (if not the most) families to rule Europe, even suggesting that "European history revolved around the Hapsburgs". From the middle ages, to the Ottoman invasion, to the Napoleonic wars and ending in World War One, Hapsburg rulers have had their hand subtly positioned in the political affairs of Europe.

Use of the word 'Imperial' emphasizes the role of the Hapsburg ruler as first, Holy Roman Emperor and later Emperor of Austria. A more apt description of the family would be royal and imperial, signifying both the titles of king and emperor. After all, the Hapsburgs were Kings of Bohemia and Hungary, while holding dozens of other titles throughout the lands they ruled.

To the Hapsburgs, the title personified a legacy; one that could be traced all the way back to ancient Rome. And precisely because they could not claim kindred with neither the Saliens nor the Staufens, the two most distinguished Germanic blood lines, the Hapsburgs so desperately needed the buttress of patrician genesis and the sanctity of papal benefaction. With the one exception Bavarian Charles VII in 1742, the electors of the Holy Roman Empire almost always chose a member of the Habsburg dynasty as emperor, and the Hapsburgs, consequently, regarded the title as a family fiefdom, despite the formalities of election.

Österreich Über Alles literally means 'Austria Over All' in German, the native language of the Austrian Hapsburgs.  This credo has its origins from the Hapsburg Emperor Frederick III's cryptic device of A.E.I.O.U., which usually is interpreted to stand for Austria Est Imperare Orbi Universo or Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima.  Translated from Latin, the lingua franca of the medieval ages, the former phrase roughly means Austria is destined to rule the world

As the above acronym illustrates, nothing seemed impossible, it even seem destined, for this Germanic noble family during Frederick’s reign.    

The forces of the modern world, having their genesis in the French Revolution and apogee during World War I, eventually overpowered the Hapsburgs, among a myriad of other monarchies, whose rule from 1273 to 1918 would end after more than half a millennium.  Excerpted from an article: by Juraj Lišiak, McGill University

Ten Imperial Circles 

The later Holy Roman Empire was organized to a considerable degree by systems of regional administration. These regions were termed Kreise (Circles). They were headed up by a Kreisoberst, drawn from local nobility, and each had a legislative assembly, the Kreistag. The function of each Circle was primarily the administration of Imperial law and the maintenance of order, but the assemblies also served to assess local opinion and to direct regional efforts as circumstances dictated. The system was formalized in 1500, when Emperor Maximilian I created 6 circles (Bavaria, Franconia, Lower Saxony, Swabia, Upper Saxony, Westphalia), and reorganized twelve years later into ten, with the addition of Austria, Burgundy, the Rhenish Electorates, and the Rhine Palatinate. There were three estates, the secular noble Houses, the ecclesiastic seats, and free cities with Imperial charters.   Membership in the circles was not entirely fixed, and could shift from decade to decade as circumstances changed.   Even so, the membership was stable to a large degree, and seats within noble estates tended to remain even though the territories involved might change dynasties or be subdivided.   Note that nearly all the Empire was involved in one circle or another.

The Habsburg Emperors

 I remember in reading about their history that it would take someone fluent in 17 languages to understand the full extent of their influence in Europe.   So then rather than go through an almost impossible exercise in an attempt to trace the influence of the Hapsburg dynasty; it would be easier to show there intent (A.E.I.O.U. - Austria Over All) by showing their Coat of Arms which as anyone can see is very satanic in it's imagery; which betrays the intent of the devil to rule even as Nimrod...  making a name for himself in the hearts of men.

If you want a clear picture of the extent of their influence; think of it this way: there reign over the Holy Roman Empire either directly or through the branches of their vast family tree lasted almost three times as long as the U.S. has been in existence. 

The bloodline of the Hapsburg dynasty flows through all the crowned heads of Europe; with some asserting an ancestry that is in the realm of blasphemy.  These assertions have recently been put forth in a work of fiction in such a way that it is easy to see where the "blasphemous name" that Revelation speaks of actually comes from.  If you want to research this blasphemy; you'll have to find another source, as I will not give any space to it.

There are also assertions of European bloodlines being related to the lost tribe of Dan, and also that the house of Windsor (Great Britain) has ancestry to the tribe of Judah.  And of course there is also the 'two house' error of Ephraim connected to the British Isles as well.

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