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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria ( Linz, 14 June 1529 – 24 January 1595, Innsbruck) was ruler of Further Austria and since 1564 Imperial count of Tyrol. The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he was married to Philippine Welser in his first marriage.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
Born in Graz on 9 July 1578. Died in Vienna on 15 February 1637. Motto: ‘Legitime Certantibus - With those fighting in a just cause’. Ferdinand was a belligerent and ruthless monarch: as ruler over Inner Austria he relentlessly implemented the re-Catholicization of his subjects by means of ‘Reformation commissions’ which toured the land.
He was the second son of Archduke Charles of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria. Ferdinand was marked for life by the religious fundamentalism that surrounded him as he grew up. The court at Graz around 1600 was the centre of the Counter Reformation in the Austrian Lands.
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este, Austrian archduke whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I. He and his wife, Sophie, were murdered by the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and a month later Austria declared war on Serbia.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.
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Ferdinand II was uncompromisingly Catholic and promoted the Counter-Reformation with zeal. He led the Habsburg dominions into the Thirty Years’ War, which brought suffering and destruction upon the general populace.
