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In 1467, when Elisabeth II of Austria, last rival claimant to the title, renounced her rights, Philip III's son, Charles, Duke of Burgundy, assumed the title of duke of Luxembourg, making it a subsidiary title of the Duke of Burgundy.
In 1905, Grand Duke Adolphe's younger half-brother, Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau, died, having left a son Georg Nikolaus, Count von Merenberg who was, however, the product of a morganatic marriage, and therefore not legally a member of the House of Nassau.
Sep 13, 2024 · Wenceslaus I was the first Duke of Luxembourg. By the mid-15th century, the main line of the Luxembourg dynasty went extinct, with the Duchy of Luxembourg being passed onto Habsburg relatives. There was fighting with the French, occupation by the Austrian Habsburgs, by the Spanish Netherlands, and soon enough Luxembourg became annexed by France.
Charles Theodore, who would have become Duke of Luxembourg, was genealogically a junior descendant of both Anna and Elisabeth, but the main heir of neither. During the War of the First Coalition, Luxembourg was conquered and annexed by Revolutionary France, becoming part of the département of the Forêts [4] in 1795.
Grand Duke Adolphe then became the first sovereign of a national dynasty, represented today by Grand Duke Henri, Head of State and 6th descendant of the Nassau-Weilbourg lineage.
Jul 15, 2024 · Wenceslaus I served as the Duke of Luxembourg from 1353 to 1383. Upon his death, Wenceslaus II, also known as Wenceslaus the Drunkard, son of Charles I (Charles IV), reclaimed the County of Luxembourg.
The first courtesy visits of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess following his accession to the throne took them to France (9–10 October 2000) and to Germany (11–12 October 2000). These visits underline the vital and close ties between Luxembourg and these two neighbouring countries.
