Editing House of Babenberg (section)

===The Babenbergs and the Habsburgs===
The next dynasty in Austria—the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]]—were originally not descendants of the Babenbergs. It was not until the children of [[Albert I of Germany]] that the Babenberg blood was brought into the Habsburg line, though this blood was from the pre-ducal Babenbergs. A side effect of this marriage was the use of the Babenberg name ''Leopold'' by the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]] for one of their sons.

The Habsburgs did eventually gain descent from the Babenberg dukes, though at different times. The first [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] line to be descended from the Babenbergs was the ''Albertine'' line. This was achieved through the marriage of [[Albert III, Duke of Austria]] to [[Beatrix of Nuremberg]]. As such, their son, [[Albert IV, Duke of Austria]], was the first Habsburg duke who was descended from the Babenberg dukes. However, the male line of that branch of the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]] died out in 1457 with [[Ladislas V Posthumus of Bohemia]].

The next [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] line to gain Babenberg blood was the ''Styrian'' line, which occurred with the children of [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor]] and [[Anna of Bohemia and Hungary]], the latter of whom descended from Babenberg dukes. It was actually from [[Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505)|Elizabeth of Austria]], the sister of [[Ladislas V Posthumus of Bohemia]], that the Styrian line gained their Babenberg blood.

The ''Spanish'' line was the last Habsburg line to gain Babenberg blood. Again it was via the previous [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] line to gain Babenberg blood (i.e. the Styrian) that the Spanish [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] gained their descent from the Babenbergs — [[Anna of Austria (1549–1580)|Anna of Austria]], the wife of [[Philip II of Spain]] and mother of [[Philip III of Spain|Philip]] (from whom all subsequent Spanish [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]] were descended), was a male-line granddaughter of [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand]] and [[Anna of Bohemia and Hungary|Anna]]. As a result, after 1598, all [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] scions descended from the Babenberg Dukes.