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| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578– February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, reigned 1620-1637. | | | The now-deposed Frederick fled to the Netherlands and Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, the leader of the Catholic League, moved to confiscate his lands in the Palatine. | | | Ferdinand's staunch Catholicism led to infringements on the religious freedoms of non-Catholics. |
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| | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (July 9, 1578– February 15, 1637), of the house of Habsburg, reigned 1620-1637. | | | The now-deposed Frederick fled to the Netherlands and Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, the leader of the Catholic League, moved to confiscate his lands in the Palatine. | | | Ferdinand's staunch Catholicism led to infringements on the religious freedoms of non-Catholics. |
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| | In the same year Ferdinand married Anna, daughter of Uladislaus II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, in fulfillment of a treaty (1515) between his grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Uladislaus II. | | | 1503–64, Holy Roman emperor (1558–64), king of Bohemia (1526–64) and of Hungary (1526–64), younger brother of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. | | | In Germany, Ferdinand increasingly acted as agent of Charles V, who in 1531 had him elected king of the Romans, which insured Ferdinand’s succession as Holy Roman emperor. |
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| | Charles was the son of Philip I, king of Castile, and Joanna the Mad; maternal grandson of Ferdinand V of Castile and Isabella I; paternal grandson of the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I; and great-grandson of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy. | | | Maximilian, the eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, was born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. | | | Holy Roman emperor (1519-1558), and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516-1556), who fought a losing battle to keep his Roman Catholic empire together in the face of emergent Protestantism and outside pressure. |
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| Â | The Imperial Council of Princes and Counts of The Holy Roman Empire , Founded 1489 , The Imperial Nobility of Belgium , France and Germany . |
| | During the reign of the Emperor Maximilian I (1493–1519) the conflict between the dynastic policy of the Hapsburg Emperors and the interests of the German empire (then known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation) became pronounced. | | | In 1804, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II took the Imperial Title Francis I, Emperor of Austria, and after the establishment (1806) of the Confederation of the Rhine under Napoleon I, Francis renounced His Imperial Title as Holy Roman Emperor. | | | The Holy Roman Empire was once famously dismissed by Voltaire as neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire, despite covering most of central Europe for over a thousand years, its history was intricately interwoven with that of Europe as a whole. |
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| | Holy Roman emperor (1519–56), king of Spain (as Charles I, 1516–56), and archduke of Austria (as Charles I, 1519–21), who inherited a Spanish and Habsburg empire extending across Europe from Spain and the Netherlands to Austria and the Kingdom of Naples and reaching overseas to Spanish America. | | | Charles was the son of Philip I the Handsome, king of Castile, and Joan the Mad, and the grandson of Emperor Maximilian I. and Mary of Burgundy, as well as of the “Catholic Kings” Isabella I the Catholic, of Castile, and Ferdinand II the Catholic, of Aragon. | | | In a battle that decided the whole campaign and placed his archenemies at his mercy, the Emperor (who had been attacked by the German princes the previous September) defeated the Protestants at Mühlberg in April 1547. |
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| | The death of the Emperor brought to a close a reign "unsurpassed by any other reign in the disasters it brought to the nation." Composed of conglomerate states, races and languages, the Holy Roman Empire relentlessly began to disintegrate. | | | Baha'u'llah, a prisoner, could not visit Europe but the Emperor of Austria came to the Holy Land and passed under His shadow. | | | Emperor Franz Josef journeyed to the Holy Land to pay tribute to Christ. |
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| | When Frederick III, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick III needed the dukes to finance war against Hungaria in 1486 and at the same time had his son, later Maximilian I, Holy Roman EmperorMaximilian I elected king, he was presented with the dukes' united demand to participate in an Imperial Court. | | | His later crowning as Emperor Otto I the GreatOtto I (later called "the Great") in 962 would mark an important step, since from then on the Empire – and not the West-Frankish kingdom that was the other remainder of the Frankish kingdoms – would have the blessing of the pope. | | | It was Frederick I, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick I "Barbarossa" (king 1152, emperor 1155–1190) who first called the Empire "holy", with which he intended to address mainly law and legislation. |
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| | The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) never achieved the political unification that France did; a prolonged attempt at centralizing authority starting with Maximilian I (1493-1519) was wrecked by the Reformation and the ensuing wars, culminating with the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). | | | That is, he was "emperor elect": a term that did not imply that he was emperor-in-waiting or not yet fully emperor, but only that he was emperor by virtue of the election rather than papal coronation (by tradition, the style of rex Romanorum electus was retained between the election and the German coronation). | | | The vicariate ended once the new emperor had sworn to uphold his electoral capitulation. |
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| | The war lost her Austrian Silesia, but she was able to retain her other dominions, and in 1745 she acquired the title of Holy Roman emperor for her husband. | | | Son of Emperor Maximilian II; educated for church; archbishop of Toledo and cardinal (1577); viceroyof Portugal (1585-95); governor of Spanish Netherlands (1595); m. | | | As emperor of Austria, Francis gave Prince Klemens von Metternich almost complete control of foreign affairs after 1809 and devoted himself to the internal administration of the empire. |
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| | But it seems difficult to argue that the Emperor was legally founded to use his emergency powers to destroy the Empire in order to save it. | | | The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) never achieved the political unification that France did; a prolonged attempt at centralizing authority starting with Maximilian I (1493-1519) was wrecked by the Reformation and the ensuing wars, culminating with the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). | | | He also ruled the empire in case the emperor was incapacitated (as did Joseph I in the last days of his father's reign), but stayed out of the government of the empire otherwise, according to the oath he took upon election. |
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| | The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) never achieved the political unification that France did; a prolonged attempt at centralizing authority starting with Maximilian I (1493-1519) was wrecked by the Reformation and the ensuing wars, culminating with the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). | | | That is, he was "emperor elect": a term that did not imply that he was emperor-in-waiting or not yet fully emperor, but only that he was emperor by virtue of the election rather than papal coronation (by tradition, the style of rex Romanorum electus was retained between the election and the German coronation). | | | The vicariate ended once the new emperor had sworn to uphold his electoral capitulation. |
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| | The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) never achieved the political unification that France did; a prolonged attempt at centralizing authority starting with Maximilian I (1493-1519) was wrecked by the Reformation and the ensuing wars, culminating with the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). | | | Significantly, the final acts of the Holy Roman Empire, namely the Reichsdeputationshauptschluß of 1803, the note of the French ambassador of August 1, 1806 and the abdication of Francis II, all use the phrase Deutsches Reich (confederation germanique) rather than the formal title. | | | When a successor was elected during the lifetime of the Emperor, he bore the title of King of the Romans (Rex Romanorum, römischer König). |
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| | : Spanish king Felipe the Fair inherits the "Low Countries" (Holland) when Maximilian I is made Holy Roman Emperor | | | : Sancho, the ruler of Castilla, is made a king by the Holy Roman Emperor and founds the Sanchez dynasty | | | : at the Treaty of Verdun the Holy Roman Empire is divided among Charles II le Chauve (western France), Lothair (Netherlands, eastern France, renamed Lotharingia/Lorraine, and northern Italy) and Louis/Ludwig II (western Germany) |
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| | Maximilian II was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Bohemia and Hungary. | | | Albrecht I (1248-1308), Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Austria in 1282. | | | Ferdinand I, later a Holy Roman Emperor, was born in Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain, on March 10, 1503, and died in Vienna on July 27, 1564. |
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| | After another lapse when the Carolingian line died out, the title of emperor, or Holy Roman emperor, was borne by successive dynasties of German kings almost continuously from the mid-10th century until the abolition of the empire. | | | Originally allied with the papacy, the empire became involved in a long struggle with the popes for the leadership of Christian Europe between the mid-11th and the mid-13th century. | | | But its sovereign was usually the German king, and the German lands were always its chief component; after the mid-15th century, it was known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. |
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| | Under Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, the Habsburgs first acquired the land upon which would later be erected the ''Schönbrunn Palace'': the Habsburgs' summer palace in Vienna and one of the most enduring symbols of the dynasty. | | | *Philip I of Castile, second son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, founded the Spanish Habsburgs in 1506 by marrying Joanna of Castile Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella. | | | Sigismund had no children and adopted Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, son of duke Frederick V (emperor Frederick III). |
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| | Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II Maximilian II of the Habsburg dynasty was born in 1527 at Vienna and died in 1576 in Regensburg. | | | Maximilian was king of Bohemia from 1562, king of Hungary from 1563 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1564 until his death. | | | He married Maria, daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on 13 September 1548. |
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| | Maximilian is possibly best known for leading the 1495 Reichstag at Worms which concluded on the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform), reshaping much of the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. | | | 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. | | | The war only ended with a success of the Empire after his death. |
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| | 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. | | | The war only ended with a success of the Empire after his death. | | | Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal. |
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| | Lothair I Lothair I (795 – March 2, 855), Holy Roman Emperor, was the eldest son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Irmengarde (Ermengarde), daughter of Ingramm (Ingerman), the Duke of Hesbaye. | | | Charles II the Bald Charles the Bald (Charles II of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles II) (French: Charles le Chauve) (June 13, 823 - October 5 or 6, 877), Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks, was the son of emperor Louis the Pious and his second wife Judith. | | | He was elected king in 1024 and crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on March 26, 1027, the first member of the Salian Dynasty. |
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| | 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). | | | 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. | | | 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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| | 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). | | | 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. | | | 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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| | Otto IV of Brunswick Otto IV of Brunswick (died 1218) was King of Germany (1208-1215) and Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 - 1215. | | | Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal. | | | Philip of Swabia Philip of Swabia (1177-1208), German king and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Frederick I and Beatrix, daughter of Renaud III, count of Burgundy, and consequently brother of the emperor Henry VI. |
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| | Maximilian is possibly best known for leading the 1495 Reichstag at Worms which concluded on the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform), reshaping much of the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire. | | | 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. | | | The war only ended with a success of the Empire after his death. |
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| | Charles II the Bald Charles the Bald (Charles II of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles II) (French: Charles le Chauve) (June 13, 823 - October 5 or 6, 877), Holy Roman Emperor and king of the West Franks, was the son of emperor Louis the Pious and his second wife Judith. | | | Lothair I Lothair I (795 – March 2, 855), Holy Roman Emperor, was the eldest son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his wife Irmengarde (Ermengarde), daughter of Ingramm (Ingerman), the Duke of Hesbaye. | | | He was elected king in 1024 and crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on March 26, 1027, the first member of the Salian Dynasty. |
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| | Although Maximilian's grandson and successor, Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorCharles V, was crowned in Bologna by the Pope, he was the last, and thereafter the position of Holy Roman Emperor was a wholly German post until the Empire's dissolution in August 6, 1806. | | | Being Emperor in the Roman Empire was not a constitutional office but rather a complicated collection of offices, titles, and honours, that were consolidated around a single person (while in the republic the "taking of turns", often in shared offices, had been the principle for passing on power). | | | The Holy Roman Empire, such as it was, consisted of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of GermanyGermany, Kingdom of ItalyItaly, and Kingdom of BurgundyBurgundy. |
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