List of princes of Austria-Hungary

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This page lists princely families in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whether extant or extinct. The style of address is Durchlaucht (Serene Highness). Also used was Fürstliche Gnaden (Princely Grace).

Countess Isabella Esterházy de Galánta. The wealth and power of the princely Esterházy family was legendary.

Countess Draskovich accompanied by Prince Ferdinand of Auersperg at the horse-races in Freudenau, close to Vienna. Horse racings were popular and played a similar role like Ascot in the United Kingdom.

Karel Schwarzenberg, current head of the princely House of Schwarzenberg and foreign minister of the Czech Republic.

Preposition^[1]	Original name	Current name	Notes
von	Auersperg	Auersperg
	Batthyány von Német-Ujvár	Batthyány-Strattmann	junior members were counts
	Barth von Barthenheim	de Bart	also used the preposition de and raised from comital to princely rank in 1917 by Emperor Charles
von	Clary und Aldringen	Clary-Aldringen	junior members were counts
von	Collalto und San Salvatore	Collalto	junior members were counts
von	Colloredo-Mansfeld	Colloredo-Mansfeld	junior members were counts; eldest son of the prince was titled Count of Mansfeld
von	Croÿ	Croÿ(-subline)	Also known as Croÿ-Dülmen, three branches exist. lines of this family were dukes; also used the preposition de
von	Dietrichstein		Became extinct firstly in male line, recreated for husband of heiress; junior members of this family were counts of Dietrichstein & Proskau-Leslie (first family) then Dietrichstein-Mensdorff-Pouilly (second family)
	Esterházy von Galántha	Esterházy	also comital; also used the preposition de
	Festetics von Tolna	Festetics	also used the preposition de
zu	Fürstenberg	Fürstenberg	members use titles outside of Austria; some use the preposition von
von	Grassalkovics	Grassalkovics
zu	Hohenlohe	Hohenlohe	this family had multiple branches
von	Khevenhüller-Metsch	Khevenhüller-Metsch	junior members were counts
	Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau	Kinsky	junior members were counts; also comital
von	Lichnowsky	Lichnowsky
von	Lobkowicz	Lobkowicz
von und zu	Liechtenstein	von und zu Liechtenstein	sovereign since 1719
von	Metternich-Winneburg	Metternich	also used the preposition de
zu	Oettingen-Oettingen		this family had multiple branches (Oettingen, Wallerstein & Spielberg)
von	Orsini und Rosenberg	Orsini-Rosenberg	junior members were counts
von	Rohan	Rohan	a female line of this family was ducal; also used the preposition de
zu	Sayn-Wittgenstein	Sayn-Wittgenstein-(subline)	this family had multiple branches
von	Schönburg-Hartenstein Schönburg-Waldenburg	Schönburg(-subline)	this family had multiple branches; also comital
von	Starhemberg	Starhemberg	junior members were counts
zu	Schwarzenberg	Schwarzenburg
von	Thun-Hohenstein	Thun-Hohenstein	also comital
von und zu	Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg	Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg	also comital
von	Waldburg	Waldburg-(subline)	this family had multiple branches; junior members were counts
zu	Windisch-Graetz	Windisch-Graetz	also Windisch-Grätz