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Frederick II, Joseph II, and Leopold II. It was in fact a phenomenon found throughout continental Europe.4 Many rulers governed according to its principles the modernizing Charles III in Spain, the despotic minister Pombal in Portugal, the Habsburgs in Lombardy, the minister Tanucci in the Kingdom of Naples, Dutillot in Parma, Peter Leopold
Jun 22, 2021 · In the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, people carved out kingdoms, fought brutal wars, and rose to greatness—and fell from it—with bewildering speed. In the middle of the 8th century, Pepin the Short (r. 751-768), joined in the scrap when he usurped the throne of the Franks. After Charlemagne had defeated the pope ...
Aug 6, 2019 · The Holy Roman Empire was a notional realm in central Europe, which lasted for around 1,000 years, until 1806. Its name, however is rather misleading: the French philosopher Voltaire once decried the realm as “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire”. Listen | Peter Wilson describes the 1000-year history of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1661 King Louis XIV became sole ruler in France. After the country’s gains in the Thirty Years’ War, he was intent upon extending France’s territories by military means at the expense of the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium). As the Habsburgs were already at war with the Ottoman Empire, a conflict in the West was to put their military and
LEOPOLD (1640-1705), Roman emperor, the second son of the emperor Ferdinand III. and his first wife Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III. of Spain, was born on the 9th of June 1640. Intended for the Church, he received a good education, but his prospects were changed by the death of his elder brother, the German king Ferdinand IV., in July 1654 ...
Sep 12, 2022 · 1657 [1] -1705. Succeeded by. Joseph I (Habsburg) von Österreich. Leopold I (name in full: Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician; Hungarian: I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of ...
brother Joseph I. Charles VI (born Oct. 1, 1685, Vienna, Austria—died Oct. 20, 1740, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1711 and, as Charles III, archduke of Austria and king of Hungary. As pretender to the throne of Spain (as Charles III), he attempted unsuccessfully to reestablish the global empire of his 16th-century ancestor Charles V.
