Around 1020 CE, Count Radbot had a castle built on a hill overlooking the Aare River in the southern part of the Duchy of Swabia; it is now in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Although the castle belonged to his family for almost four hundred years, it was the family's main residence only until the mid-thirteenth century, when their power base had shifted east to the Duchy of Austria. Radbot's descendants may have left their original castle behind, but they ruled Austria until almost nine hundred years after Radbot built that castle and named it "Habsburg", after either a hawk ("Habicht" in German) or a ford ("hab" in Middle High German). (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 August 2022)
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