Joseph I of the Holy Roman Empire

Their titles over time

Follow the changing territories and offices of Joseph I of the Holy Roman Empire. Each title retains its own status.

Governments in 1705

• Austrian Habsburg Monarchy9 titles and offices
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  • Hungary · ESKing · Co-ruler1687–1705 · Elected or crowned during the predecessor’s lifetime; authority was not exclusive.
  • Austria · ESArchduke · Effective rule1705–1711
  • Bohemia · ESKing · Effective rule1705–1711
  • Croatia · ESKing · Co-ruler1687–1705 · Elected or crowned during the predecessor’s lifetime; authority was not exclusive.
  • Moravia · ESMargrave · Effective rule · Royal centres of Brno and Olomouc; regional authority over the margraviate, distinct from the full geography of the Bohemian title1705–1711 · Brno and Olomouc are regional urban centres; they are not equated with the monarch’s exclusive ownership of Moravia and do not erase seigneurial or episcopal jurisdictions. Olomouc begins with the privilege of 1378 and is excluded during the documented Swedish and Prussian occupations.
  • Silesia · ESSovereign · Effective rule · Overlordship of the Bohemian crown over the Silesian duchies; not direct ducal possession1705–1711 · The enfeoffed princes and the bishop of Nysa retain their own governments. The area represents superior sovereignty; Schweidnitz-Jauer was incorporated in 1392. Greater Poland, Lusatia and Glatz are excluded. This does not derive from the imperial office.
  • Inner Austria · ESSovereign · Effective rule1705–1711 · Inner hereditary provinces reunited with the Austrian line from 1619; provincial administrations and autonomies are retained. The connection does not arise from the imperial title.
  • Tyrol · ESCount · Effective rule1705–1711 · Territorial succession to Tyrol after reunification in 1665; excludes the bishoprics of Trent and Brixen.
  • Habsburg Transylvania · ESSovereign · Effective rule1705–1711 · Personal tenure inferred from the Austrian hereditary succession and the treaty’s territorial boundary; an administratively separate province.

  Joint direction of the domains effectively governed by this ruler. Excludes the imperial framework, Ottoman Hungary and independent or tributary Transylvanian principalities. Austrian branches under another ruler retain their own grouping. Source for this grouping

• Holy Roman Empire (Germany)2 titles and offices
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  • Germany · ESKing of the Romans · Co-ruler1690–1705 · Elected or crowned during the predecessor’s lifetime; authority was not exclusive.
  • Holy Roman Empire · ESEmperor · Effective rule1705–1711

Annual dates: overlap within one year does not prove that two offices were held on the same day. Regencies and co-rulerships retain their labels.