From Francois R. Velde's Heraldy Page :

Arms of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy

The Imperial Arms

The Great Imperial Arms were formed of the quarters ofthe Crown Lands, arranged in various ways at various times.See a splendid black-and-white but large (443Kb) representation.

The Titles of the Habsburg Emperors

Here are the titles of Ferdinand III as enumerated in the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648:

Most Serene and Puissant Prince and Lord, Ferdinand the Third,elected Roman Emperor, always August, King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia,Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Arch-Duke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy,Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Marquiss of Moravia, Duke ofLuxemburg, of the Higher and Lower Silesia, of Wirtemburg and Teck,Prince of Suabia, Count of Hapsburg, Tirol, Kyburg and Goritia, Marquissof the Sacred Roman Empire, Burgovia, the Higher and Lower Lusace, Lordof the Marquisate of Slavonia, of Port Naon and Salines.

The Austrian Crown Lands

See a large (466 Kb)color illustration of many of the following coats.

• Archduchy of Lower Austria: Azure, five eaglets or.
• Archduchy of Upper Austria: per pale Sable an eagleor, and pally of 4 argent and gules.
• Duchy of Salzburg:per pale, Or a lion sable, and Gulesa fess argent.
• Duchy of Steiermark: Vert a panther argent, horned andfire issuing from the mouth gules.
• Duchy ofKärnten: per pale, Or three lions sable,and Gules a fess argent.
• Duchy of Krain: Argent, an eagle azure, crowned and armed gules, on its breast a crescent chequy or and gules.
• City of Trieste: per fess, or a crowned double-headedeagle sable, and Gules, on a fess argent the spear ofSt. Sergius issuant from base or.
• County of Görz and Gradisca: per pale, 1) per bend bendy sinister of 6 argent and gules, andazure a crowned lion or; 2) per fess or and azure,a cross moline argent.
• Margraviate of Istria: Azure a goat or armed gules.
• County of Tirol: Argent, an eagle gules, armed and crownedor, on its breast a Klee-stengel of the last.
• Voralberg: Quarterly of 7 in three rows of 3, 2 and 2:1) on a field of pannes a pale ermine (Bregenz); 2) azure,a triple mount beneath a sun or )county of Sonnenberg); 2)argent, a church argent roofed gules, in sinister a shieldargent bearing a gonfanon sable (Feldkirch); 4) Argent a unicornsable (Bludenz); 5) Azure a ibex or armed sable (Hohenems);6) Gules, on a fess argent a pear-tree vert fructed or (Dornbirn);7) Argent, an eradicated, fructed pine-treevert (Bregenzerwald); Ente in point Argent, two keys per saltire sable (Montafon). En surtout Argent a gonfanon gules(Feldkirch).
• Kingdom of Bohemia: Gules, a lion tail forked argent,crowned and armed or.
• Margraviate of Moravia: Azure, a crowned eagle chequy or and gules.
• Duchy of Silesia: or, an eagle displayed sable crowned of the first (armed and membered gules), on its breast a crescent trefoiled and a crosslet argent (alternatively, a crossleton a Klee-stengel argent).
• Kingdom of Galicia: Azure, a bar gules between acrow sable in chief standing on the bar, and three crownsor in base.
• Duchy of Bukovina: iper pale azure and gules,a bull's head caboshed sable, horned argent, betweenthree mullets or.
• Kingdom of Dalmatia:Azure, three leopard's heads caboshed crowned or.

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