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| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578 – February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, reigned 1620-1637. | | | In 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria. | | | The nobility revolted against Ferdinand and replaced him with the protestant Frederick V, Elector Palatine, known as the "Winter King." |
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| | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II from the house of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria. | | | She died in 1649, and Ferdinand married a third time, to Eleonora Gonzaga, daughter of the Duke of Mantua. | | | This way the emperor was trying to gain more allies in the negotiations with France and Sweden. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ferdinand II |
| | Notwithstanding these troubles in his hereditary states, Ferdinand was chosen German Emperor by the votes of all the electors except Bohemia and the Palatinate. | | | Ferdinand annulled the privileges of the estates, declared void the concessions granted to the Bohemian Protestants by the Majestätsbrief of Rudolf II, and punished the heads of the insurrection with death and confiscation of goods. | | | Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. |
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| | Ferdinand II |
| | After his victory over the Swedes (September 1634) at Nördlingen, Ferdinand reached a compromise with the Protestant princes in the Peace of Prague (1635) and, in 1636, succeeded in having his son Ferdinand elected king of the Romans (successor-designate to the emperor). | | | Ferdinand was born in Graz, the eldest son of the archduke Charles, the ruler of Inner Austria (Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola), and Maria, a daughter of Albrecht V, duke of Bavaria. | | | Eventually, for reasons of state, Ferdinand reluctantly gave his consent to a second dismissal and the assassination of Wallenstein, who had treacherously entered into negotiations with the enemy (1634). |
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| | Matthias (1557-1619) |
| | The archdukes decided that the archduke Ferdinand of Styria (the future emperor Ferdinand II) should succeed Matthias, who was old, ill, and childless, as emperor. | | | Matthias and Klesl advised concessions to the Protestants, but Ferdinand refused compromise. | | | Holy Roman emperor from 1612, who, in a reversal of the policy of his father, Maximilian II, sponsored a Catholic revival in the Habsburg domains that, despite his moderating influence, eventually led to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. |
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| | Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I Hapsburg (1503-1564) |
| | Meanwhile, in 1531, Ferdinand had been elected king of Germany as a reward for his loyalty to his brother, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Good relations between the brothers, however, did not continue because Charles reserved the imperial crown for his son Philip, later King Philip II of Spain, instead of for Ferdinand. | | | Ferdinand I (Holy Roman Empire) (1503-64), Holy Roman emperor (1558-64), king of Bohemia (1526-64), and king of Germany (1531-64). | | | On Charles's abdication in 1556 of the Spanish crown, Philip was made king of Spain, while Ferdinand assumed the duties of emperor; he was not crowned, however, until after Charles's formal abdication as emperor in 1558. |
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| | Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 |
| | Ferdinand Karl (1868-1915), youngest brother of archduke Franz Ferdinand, married unequally (and secretly) Bertha Czuber (daughter of a mathematician) in 1909 and renounced his title and rank of archduke in 1911. | | | Ferdinand was later elected king of the Romans (1531) and thus became heir apparent to the imperial crown. | | | The emperor refused to assent to his marriage with Wilhelmine Adamovics, a "polizeibekannte Straßendirne", and he fled to Switzerland with his sister Luise, crown-princess of Saxony. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Matthias (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | His conciliatory policies were opposed by the more intransigent Catholic Hapsburgs, particularly Matthias's brother Archduke Maximilian, who hoped to secure the succession for the inflexible Catholic archduke Ferdinand (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II). | | | Ferdinand, who had already been crowned king of Hungary (1617) and of Bohemia (1618), succeeded Matthias as Holy Roman emperor. | | | After Matthias's accession as Holy Roman emperor, his policy was dominated by Klesl, who hoped to bring about a compromise between Catholic and Protestant states within the empire in order to strengthen it. |
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| | Thirty Years War 1618-1648 |
| | Emperor Ferdinand II regained the Bohemian throne, Maximilian of Bavaria acquired the Palatinate. | | | Emperor Ferdinand II died in 1637 and was succeeded by his son, Ferdinand III (r. | | | Emperor Ferdinand II won the support of Maximilian I (1573-1651) of Bavaria, the leader of Catholic League. |
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| | FERDINAND III. - LoveToKnow Article on FERDINAND III. |
| | (1608-1657), Roman emperor, was the elder son of the emperor Ferdinand II., and was born at Gratz on the I3th of July 1608. | | | having been elected king of the Romans, or German king, at Regensburg iii December 1636, Ferdinand became emperor on his fathers death in the following February, and showed himself anxious to put an end to the Thirty Years War. | | | This event belongs rather to the general history of Europe, but it is interesting to note that owing to Ferdinands insistence the Protestants in his hereditary domioions did not obtain religious liberty at this settlement. |
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| | Friedrich V. (1596-1632) |
| | In August 1619, a few months after the death of the emperor Matthias 1557-1619), the estates of Bohemia, being sympathetic to the Protestant cause and dissatisfied with the rule of the Catholic Habsburgs, declared Mathias' successor, Ferdinand II. | | | (1578-1637), later the emperor Ferdinand II., deposed and chose Friedrich as their king, thus precipitating what became the Thirty Years' War. | | | Reluctant at first to accept the appointment, Friedrich finally acquiesced and was crowned king of Bohemia at Prague on 4 November 1619. |
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| | Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the negotiations were Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Swiss, the Swedes, the Portuguese and representatives of the Pope. | | | Ferdinand, who became King of Bohemia and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was a staunch Catholic who had been educated by the Jesuits and who wanted to restore Catholicism. | | | Ferdinand II decisively defeated Frederick V at the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague in 1620. |
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| | Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ferdinand was the younger brother of Charles who became the Emperor, and was instead given control of the Habsburg Hereditary Lands (roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia). | | | After Suleiman the Magnificent defeated Louis II the king of Bohemia and Hungary and Ferdinand's brother-in-law on August 29, 1526, Ferdinand was elected king of Bohemia on October 24, while the Kingdom of Hungary became subject to a dynastic dispute between the Habsburgs and the Zapolyas, who were headed by John Zápolya, prince of Transylvania. | | | Ferdinand was born in Madrid, the son of Philip von Habsburg (1478–1506) and his wife Juana of Castile (1479–1555). |
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| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578– February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, reigned 1620-1637. | | | In 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria. | | | The nobility revolted against Ferdinand and replaced him with the protestant Frederick V, Elector Palatine, known as the "Winter King." |
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| | Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | At the negotiations were Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Swiss, the Swedes, the Portuguese and representatives of the Pope. | | | Ferdinand, who became King of Bohemia and Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was a staunch Catholic who had been educated by the Jesuits and who wanted to restore Catholicism. | | | Ferdinand II decisively defeated Frederick V at the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague in 1620. |
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| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578– February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, reigned 1620-1637. | | | In 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria. | | | The nobility revolted against Ferdinand and replaced him with the protestant Frederick V, Elector Palatine, known as the "Winter King." |
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| | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II from the house of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria. | | | She died in 1649, and Ferdinand married a third time, to Eleonora Gonzaga, daughter of the Duke of Mantua. | | | This way the emperor was trying to gain more allies in the negotiations with France and Sweden. |
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| | Ferdinand, as a Habsburg, became Holy Roman emperor in 1619 and, allied with Bavaria and the Catholic League, defeated the Bohemians at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. | | | Born in Lesi, Italy, on December 26, 1194, Frederick was the son of Henry VI and grandson of Frederick I, Holy Roman emperor. | | | The Bohemians replaced Ferdinand with Frederick V, elector of the Rhenish Palatinate. |
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| | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II from the house of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria. | | | She died in 1649, and Ferdinand married a third time, to Eleonora Gonzaga, daughter of the Duke of Mantua. | | | This way the emperor was trying to gain more allies in the negotiations with France and Sweden. |
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| | Ferdinand V and Isabella I |
| | In 1469 Princess Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragón, known also as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, and on the death of her brother, Henry IV, Isabella and Ferdinand jointly succeeded (1474) to the throne of Castile and León. | | | Because his daughter Joanna the Mad became insane after the death of Isabella, Ferdinand assumed the regency of Castile in 1506. | | | Ferdinand had hoped by this alliance to obtain the Castilian crown for himself, but his high-spirited and politically astute wife firmly retained sovereign authority in her own realm. |
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| | Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor - Encyclopedia, History and Biography |
| | Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal. | | | Maximilian died in Wels, Upper Austria, and was succeeded as Emperor by his grandson Charles V, his son Philip I of Castile having died in 1506. | | | Elected King of the Romans in 1486 at the initiative of his father, he also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493. |
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| | 1914 Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58 | | | 1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal | | | 1496 Emperor Maximiliaans daughter marries Spanish crown prince Johan of Aragon/Philip de Blank marries Johanna "the Waanzinnige" of Aragon |
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| | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His conciliatory policies were opposed by the more intransigent Catholic Hapsburgs, particularly Matthias's brother Archduke Maximilian, who hoped to secure the succession for the inflexible Catholic archduke Ferdinand (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II). | | | Ferdinand, who had already been crowned king of Hungary (1617) and of Bohemia (1618), succeeded Matthias as Holy Roman emperor. | | | After Matthias's accession as Holy Roman emperor, his policy was dominated by Klesl, who hoped to bring about a compromise between Catholic and Protestant states within the empire in order to strengthen it. |
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| | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His conciliatory policies were opposed by the more intransigent Catholic Hapsburgs, particularly Matthias's brother Archduke Maximilian, who hoped to secure the succession for the inflexible Catholic archduke Ferdinand (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II). | | | Ferdinand, who had already been crowned king of Hungary (1617) and of Bohemia (1618), succeeded Matthias as Holy Roman emperor. | | | After Matthias's accession as Holy Roman emperor, his policy was dominated by Klesl, who hoped to bring about a compromise between Catholic and Protestant states within the empire in order to strengthen it. |
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| | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Free Encyclopedia |
| | He was the son of Philip I and Joanna of Castile and grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. | | | After the death of his grandfather Ferdinand in 1516, Charles became joint-king of Castile with his mother (who was insane), and also inherited Aragon, Navarre, Granada, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, and Spanish America. | | | Charles (February 24, 1500 - September 21 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor (as Charles V) from 1519-1558; he was also King of Spain from 1516-1556, officially as Charles I of Spain, although often referred to as Charles V ("Carlos Quinto" or "Carlos V") in Spain and Latin America. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Emperor Charles V |
| | Charles was the son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, by Joanna, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and Burgundy was the first heritage to which he at his led, on his fathers death in 1506. | | | Upon the death of Ferdinand of Aragon in January, 1516, Charles was named as his successor; but as the Duchess Joanna was still living, and Charles' brother Ferdinand, educated in Spain, was popular in that country, the realization of this arrangement was still in doubt. | | | Charles then requested the electors to accept his abdication and to elect Ferdinand his successor. |
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| | The Denominational Age |
| | The battle raged until 1623, when Emperor Ferdinand II incorporated the Jesuit College into the University, thereby giving the priests the upper hand for the next 150 years. | | | Ferdinand I put the University of Vienna on a sound material basis and attempted to develop it as a Catholic bulwark and to make it politically accountable to him. | | | At the beginning of his rule in Austria he marginalised the established opposition movement through a number of draconian legal rulings (1522). |
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| | Encyclopedia: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II Leopold II (born Peter Leopold Joseph) (Vienna, May 5, 1747 – Vienna, March 1, 1792) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand-duke of Tuscany. | | | Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II Joseph II (March 13, 1741 â February 20, 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790. | | | The overweening character of the Emperor was obvious to Frederick II of Germany, who, after their first interview in 1769, described him as ambitious, and as capable of setting the world on fire. |
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| | Ferdinand V and Isabella I |
| | In 1469 Princess Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragón, known also as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, and on the death of her brother, Henry IV, Isabella and Ferdinand jointly succeeded (1474) to the throne of Castile and León. | | | Because his daughter Joanna the Mad became insane after the death of Isabella, Ferdinand assumed the regency of Castile in 1506. | | | Ferdinand had hoped by this alliance to obtain the Castilian crown for himself, but his high-spirited and politically astute wife firmly retained sovereign authority in her own realm. |
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| | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was: the Holy Roman emperor, duke of Austria, duke of Milan, ruler of Franche-Comte; grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella on his mother's side and thus king of Spain; king of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia, and ruler of all the Spanish possessions in the New World | | | He was king from 1516 to 1556 (in principle, he was from 1516 king of Aragon and from 1516 guardian of his insane mother, queen of Castile who died 1555, and the co-king of Castile 1516-55, full king 1555-56), and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556. | | | His grandson, king Philip III of Spain buried the emperor in the Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. |
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