20 Intiso. -—1648, from the influence of which Tyrol did not entirely escape. The jnairiage of Leopold with the beautiful Claudia Felicitas of Medici was celebrated at Innsbruck with most brilliant festivities. After Leopold’s death Claudia assumed the regency during the mi nority of their two sons.' Her chief counsellor was the brilliant Chancellor Wilhelm Biener. *) The two sons of Leopold and Claudia, Ferdinand Karl and Sigmund Franz, ruled in turn and died without heirs, and then Tyrol
reverted once more and finally to the em perors, who still keep the title : Prince-Count of Tyrol, with the later addition of: Prince of Trent and Brixcn. As rulers of Vor- arlberg the Austrian emperors are entitled ; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch,. Bregenz, and Sonnenberg. The Emperor reigning at that time, 1665, was Leopold I. In the same year he came to Innsbruck to receive the homage of the Ty roleans, and not long after he came again to marry, as his second wife, Claudia Felicitas, daughter
of Prince Ferdinand Karl and his wife, Anna of Medici. ; The Princess Mother gave a public festival on this occasion, and offered a solemn service of thanksgiving. In 1677 Leopold founded the University of Innsbruck, which was named ni honor of him. Through the fortunes of this Emperor Tyrol be came involved in the; War of the Spanish Succession. Leopold was the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne, and Philip of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV., ; was the French claimant In 1703 the French and
