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| | Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | Leopold, during his government in Tuscany, had shown a speculative tendency to grant his subjects a constitution. | | | Leopold met the threatening language of the revolutionists with dignity and temper. |
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| | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Leopold refused to consent to any partition, and when in November 1700 Charles died, leaving his crown to Philip, duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV, all hopes of a peaceable settlement vanished. | | | Leopold I Habsburg (June 9, 1640– May 5, 1705), Holy Roman emperor, was the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. | | | Leopold's long reign covers one of the most important periods of European history; for nearly the whole of its forty-seven years he was pitted against Louis XIV of France, whose dominant personality completely overshadowed Leopold. |
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| | Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | Leopold, during his government in Tuscany, had shown a speculative tendency to grant his subjects a constitution. | | | Leopold met the threatening language of the revolutionists with dignity and temper. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor |
| | Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI Charles VI of Austria (October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 and the second son of Leopold I with his third wife, Eleonore-Magdalena of Pfalz-Neuburg, came first to the throne with the name Charles III of... | | | Leopold I Habsburg (June 9, 1640 â May 5, 1705), Holy Roman emperor, was the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III and his first wife Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. | | | Leopold refused to consent to any partition, and when in November 1700 Charles died, leaving his crown to Philip, duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV, all hopes of a peaceable settlement vanished. |
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| | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | 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). | | | Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1612-1619) was born in Vienna on February 24, 1557 and died in Vienna on March 20, 1619. |
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| | Leopold II -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots.&; | | | The third son of the Habsburg Maria Theresa and the emperor Francis I, Leopold succeeded his father as duke of Tuscany when his eldest brother became emperor as Joseph II in 1765. | | | Leopold III returned in 1950 after receiving a favorable majority in a nationwide referendum. |
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| | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was born in Nancy, Lorraine (now in France), the second son of Leopold Joseph, duke of Lorraine, and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, daughter of Philippe I of Orléans. | | | Emperor Charles VI favoured the family, who, besides being his cousins, had served the house of Austria with distinction. | | | Francis I (December 8, 1708 – August 18, 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany. |
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| | In early 1792 the revolutionary leaders adopted a belligerent attitude toward Frederick II and Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, the successor to Leopold II. | | | 27, 1792 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Frederick II, King of Prussia issued a joint declaration with thinly veiled threats of armed intervention against the revolution. | | | On April 20 the French Legislative Assembly declared war on the Austrian part of the Holy Roman Empire thus beginning the series of conflicts known as the revolutionary wars. |
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| | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | He was again defeated, and this time forced to ally himself with Napoleon, ceding territory to the Empire, joining the Continental System, and wedding his daughter Marie-Louise to the Emperor. | | | Francis II Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, who is also referred to as Francis von Habsburg or Emperor Franz I of Austria (February 12, 1768 – March 2, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded. | | | The events of his early reign shaped his later reactionary views, and he instituted severe repressive measures throughout the empire. |
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| | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | He was again defeated, and this time forced to ally himself with Napoleon, ceding territory to the Empire, joining the Continental System, and wedding his daughter Marie-Louise to the Emperor. | | | Francis II Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, who is also referred to as Francis von Habsburg or Emperor Franz I of Austria (February 12, 1768 &; March 2, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded. | | | The events of his early reign shaped his later reactionary views, and he instituted severe repressive measures throughout the empire. |
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| | Kingdoms of Germany - The Holy Roman Emperor |
| | Charles V is the last emperor to be crowned by the Pope | | | The Habsburg emperors revert to their Austrian title, raising the former archduchy to the status of Austrian Empire, as it still holds almost all its eastern territories. | | | Formal end of the Holy Roman Empire (First Reich) as it is dissolved by Emperor Napoleon I of France (the Prussian-led Second Reich forms in 1871). |
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| | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ferdinand married three times, first to his cousin, the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, by whom he had two surviving sons: Ferdinand IV, his eldest, who predeceased him, and Leopold, who ultimately succeeded him. | | | This way the emperor was trying to gain more allies in the negotiations with France and Sweden. | | | Eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II from the house of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria. |
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| | Leopold II, Holy Roman emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary |
| | Succeeding his father, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, in Tuscany, Leopold reorganized the Tuscan government, abolished torture and the death penalty, equalized taxation, and sought to gain control over the church. | | | Leopold II Leopold II, 1747–92, Holy Roman emperor (1790–92), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1790–92), as Leopold I grand duke of Tuscany (1765–90), third son of Maria Theresa. | | | Leopold II is generally considered a ruler of outstanding diplomatic and administrative abilities. |
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| | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was again defeated, and this time forced to ally himself with Napoleon, ceding territory to the Empire, joining the Continental System, and wedding his daughter Marie-Louise to the Emperor. | | | Francis II Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, who is also referred to as Francis von Habsburg or Emperor Franz I of Austria (February 12, 1768– March 2, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until August 6, 1806, when the Empire was disbanded. | | | Austria played a major role in the final defeat of France—in recognition of this, Francis, represented by Clemens von Metternich, presided over the Congress of Vienna, helping to form the Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance, ushering in an era of conservatism and reactionism in Europe. |
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| | Leopold I -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Holy Roman emperor during whose lengthy reign (1658–1705) Austria emerged from a series of struggles with the Turks and the French to become a great European power, in which monarchical absolutism and administrative centralism gained ascendancy. | | | A year later his father, Leopold III, abdicated after an unsettled reign, and it was Baudouin's task to restore confidence in the monarchy (see Leopold, Kings of Belgium). | | | The son of a German prince, Leopold married the heiress to the British throne, Princess Charlotte, but she died a year later. |
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| | The Ultimate Declaration of Pillnitz - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | The Declaration of Pillnitz on August 27, 1791, was a statement issued at the Castle of Pillnitz in Saxony by Emperor Leopold II and Frederick William II of Prussia. | | | Leopold worded it this way so he wouldn't have to go to war because he knew William Pitt, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, did not support war with France. | | | Leopold merely issued this to satisfy the emigres in his nation calling for foreign interference. |
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| | Leopold I, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | 1640–1705, Holy Roman emperor (1658–1705), king of Bohemia (1656–1705) and of Hungary (1655–1705), second son and successor of Ferdinand III. | | | Upon his elder brother’s death (1654), Leopold, who had been educated for the church, became Ferdinand& heir. | | | During his reign the Holy Roman Empire was menaced by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in the east and by King Louis XIV of France in the west. |
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| | Leopold II of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Much diplomatic maneuvering resulted in the Berlin Conference of 1884–85, at which representatives of 14 European countries and the United States recognized Leopold as sovereign of most of the area he and Stanley had laid claim to. | | | Leopold II was also the father of two sons, Lucien Philippe Marie Antoine (1906-1984) and Philippe Henri Marie François (1907-1914), born out of wedlock. | | | Leopold was born in Brussels to Leopold I and Princesse Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans. |
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| | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1765-1790) |
| | Fighting was still going on at the death of Joseph II (20 February 1790). | | | His election as king of the Romans, or heir to the Imperial title, became a political issue and was opposed by Prussia when it first came up in 1752, and he was only elected to the title after the end of the Seven Years War (1763). | | | He called himself Emperor from the moment Francis I died (August 1765), and became co-ruler with his mother from December 1765, with a slowly increasing level of power. |
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| | Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1765-1790) |
| | His election as king of the Romans, or heir to the Imperial title, became a political issue and was opposed by Prussia when it first came up in 1752, and he was only elected to the title after the end of the Seven Years War (1763). | | | He called himself Emperor from the moment Francis I died (August 1765), and became co-ruler with his mother from December 1765, with a slowly increasing level of power. | | | He was succeeded by Leopold II, his younger brother. |
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| | 1688 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack Holland but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire with about 100,000 soldiers. | | | November - Hearing that William has landed in England, Louis XIV declares war on Holland. |
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| | EMPEROR JOSEPH I - LETTER SIGNED 07/05/1695 |
| | Joseph (1678-1711) succeeded his father, Leopold I, as Holy Roman Emperor in the midst of the War of the Spanish Succession and died before it ended. | | | Emperor Joseph I was only 32 when he died of smallpox in Vienna. | | | He vigorously supported the claim of his brother (who succeeded him as Charles VI) to the Spanish throne. |
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| | ANTON VON MARON - EMPEROR JOSEPH II, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA |
| | On succeeding his father as Emperor, he was elected on 27 March 1764 and crowned at Frankfurt on 3 April following, but decided to cede Tuscany to his younger brother Leopold. | | | Joseph II was the first Emperor of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen, the eldest son of Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria (herself the elder daughter of the last Habsburg Emperor, Charles VI), who had married Francis Duke of Lorraine, elected Emperor in 1745. | | | Joseph himself died in 1790, of tuberculosis, and was succeeded by his brother Leopold, grand Duke of Tuscany, ancestor of the present Imperial House. |
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