 The entirety of contemporary South Tyrol was the core of the County of Tyrol of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.After the death of Meinhard, the only son of Margaret, Countess of Tyrol, in 1363 it became united with the hereditary land of the Habsburg dynasty, and was Austrian Crown Land for centuries except for a period during the Napoleonic wars.After this it came under the jurisdiction of the Austrian Empire again in 1814.