Credits & copyright
With our thanks
This site stands on other people’s work. Some of it we are obliged to credit; a good deal of it we are not, and we would rather credit it anyway.
No credit was asked for or required. We are giving it because it was generous work, freely shared.
Photography
niko photos
The tree that carries our family tree. Photographed in Nicaragua and given away under the Unsplash License, which asks nothing in return.
His own note when he uploaded it read: “I love the idea of sharing free images for those who cannot afford to pay for them.” He asked only that people who use it follow him. We think that is worth honouring.
unsplash.com/@niko_photos · Instagram @niko.photos
Typography
Playfair Display, Montserrat & Monsieur La Doulaise
The three typefaces this site is set in. Playfair Display by Claus Eggers Sørensen; Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky and contributors; Monsieur La Doulaise, the roundhand of the wordmark, by Sudtipos. All released under the SIL Open Font License and free to use.
Cartography
Natural Earth
The coastlines and borders on our Map page. Natural Earth is a public-domain map dataset, the work chiefly of Tom Patterson and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso with the support of NACIS and others, and its terms could not be plainer: “No permission is needed to use Natural Earth. Crediting the authors is unnecessary.”
We are crediting them anyway, because a dataset that asks for nothing still took years of somebody’s life to make. We took it in the TopoJSON form prepared by Mike Bostock, projected it once, and built it into the page: the map is served from our own pages, no tile server is contacted, and nothing about your visit leaves this site.
Pictures
Captions on this site say what a picture shows. Who made it, where it is kept, and on what terms we show it, is set out on this page.
Paintings, engravings and manuscripts
All of the following are out of copyright by age. They reach us through Wikimedia Commons, which is a finding aid rather than a source of record: the work, its painter and the collection that holds it are what is credited here.
- Titian, Charles V at Mühlberg, 1548 — Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Titian, Charles V seated — and Isabella of Portugal, 1548, Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Titian, Philip II of Spain — Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian I, 1519 — Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Juan de Flandes, Joanna of Castile, c. 1500
- Alonso Sánchez Coello, Don Juan de Austria in armour, 1567; and Don Juan de Austria as a boy, c. 1559 — the latter Art Institute of Chicago
- Frans Francken the Younger, Allegory on the abdication of the Emperor Charles V at Brussels, 25 October 1555 — Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Andrea Vicentino, The Battle of Lepanto — Museo Correr, Venice; photograph by Didier Descouens
- Paolo Veronese, Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto — Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
- Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft, c. 1660 — Mauritshuis, The Hague; and The Little Street — Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Michel-Ange Houasse, View of the Monastery of El Escorial — Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Martin van Meytens, The Empress Maria Theresa; and The Emperor Francis I Stephen of Lorraine — the latter Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
- Juan Carreño de Miranda, Charles II of Spain
- Antoni Boys, Rudolf I — Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- The Burgundian marriage, from the Triumphal Arch of the Emperor Maximilian I — Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (CC0)
- Acta Murensia, twelfth century — Staatsarchiv des Kantons Aargau, AA/4947, fol. 13v
- A jewelled collar of the kind worn with the Order of the Golden Fleece — Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
- The Netherlands, 1559–1609, from William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1911
- Barbara Blomberg, as imagined by an illustrator for Die Gartenlaube, 1894
Photographs, used with permission or under their licences
- Michel Jaussi Photography — Habsburg Castle, Aargau, on the front page. © Michel Jaussi Photography, used with the photographer’s permission
- Roland Zumbuehl — Habsburg Castle, Aargau. CC BY-SA 3.0
- Zairon — the abbey church at Muri, Aargau. CC BY-SA 3.0
- Berthold Werner — Aachen Cathedral. CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gerd Eichmann — the Hofburg, Vienna. CC BY-SA 4.0
- FrDr — the Court of Savoy, Mechelen. CC BY-SA 4.0
- Jl FilpoC — the house at Cuacos de Yuste, and the tomb of John of Austria at El Escorial. CC BY-SA 4.0
- Zarateman — the palace of Charles V at Yuste. CC0
Where a picture is reproduced under a CC BY-SA licence, the licence asks that the photographer be named and that anything derived from the picture be shared on the same terms. We name them, we have altered nothing, and we are glad of the work.
Every picture, page by page
[hoh_picture_credits]Copyright and permissions
Every image and every piece of writing on this site has been checked before publication. Most of it belongs to the family. Where something does not, it is used with permission or under a licence that allows it, and it is credited above — whether or not the licence requires us to.
Where we are grateful rather than obliged, we say so anyway. A licence that asks nothing of us is not a reason to say nothing.
What the family owns
The following are the property of the House of Habsburg or of individual family members, and are published here by their permission:
Family collection
Photographs, documents and records held by the family
Including the photograph of the painted coat of arms, and the genealogical records underlying the Ancestry and Heads of the House pages.
This website
Text, structure and original artwork
The written history, page copy and original graphic work made for this site are © House of Habsburg. Reproduction elsewhere by arrangement — please ask.
A standing invitation
If you believe something here is yours and is not properly credited — or should not be here at all — we want to know.
And the invitation runs the other way too. If you hold a photograph, a portrait, a document or a piece of family or local history you would be willing to see published here, we would like to hear from you. Contributions are credited on this page unless you would rather they were not.
A way to write to us will be added to this page shortly.
This page is kept current as the site grows. Last reviewed 28 September 2026.