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OBSERVATIONS Historical and Genealogical.
CHAP. I. Of the Genealogy of the House of Austria.
§. I. BEing to give a Genealogical Ac∣count of all the Soveraign Prin∣ces now flourishing in Europe, 'twill be but just to begin with the House of Austria, as being of the First Dignity: Which as it owes its Original without doubt, to the Earls of Habsburg; so in tracing the Pedigree of those Earls, most Genealogists are at a loss. As for us, we shall not doubt to derive 'em from the Counts of Mont-Aventine, of the Anician Perleonian Fa∣mily, which was formerly of the greatest Re∣pute and Authority of any in Rome; and had its Seat on Mont-Aventine, being chiefly induc'd thereunto by the Arguments us'd by Pet. Lam∣bechius, in his Comment. de Biblioth. Caesar. lib. 2. c. 6. In the Twelfth Century there flourish'd in this Family, one Leo Anicius Perleonius, Count