House of Auersperg

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The House of Auersperg (Slovene: Auerspergi or Turjaški) is an Austrian princely family and one of the most prominent families of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. The family originates from the comital line of Auersperg in the Duchy of Carniola in today's Slovenia during the Middle Ages and belongs to the high nobility (one of the mediatised houses, or former sovereign families). The Auerspergs held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire from 1653 and had an individual vote (Virilstimme) in the College of Princes of the Imperial Diet from 1664. They also held at various times the duchies of Münsterberg and Gottschee. Following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, their Imperial State was mediatised to the Grand Duchy of Baden. The Auerspergs remained one of the most prominent families in the Austrian Empire and later Austro-Hungarian Empire, most notably serving as generals, prime ministers of the western half of the empire (Minister-President of Cisleithania) and...

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