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Joseph I

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noun

  1. 1678–1711, king of Hungary 1687–1711; king of Germany 1690–1711; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1705–11 (son of Leopold I).


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The new emperor, Franz Joseph I, declared that Austria was a unitary state.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Joseph: I do think that the Celtic board made the wrong choice of new manager, but the players are losing because of tactics that are lost on them.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

But Maximilian’s older sibling, Franz Joseph I, the Austrian emperor, balked at relinquishing the headdress.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2025

During the outbreak of 1711 alone, smallpox killed the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I; three siblings of the future Holy Roman emperor Francis I; and the heir to the French throne, the grand dauphin Louis.

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2021

If I were Joseph, I thought, I wouldn’t go into stores.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt

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