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Catholic League, a military alliance (1609–35) of the Catholic powers of Germany led by Maximilian I, duke of Bavaria, and designed to stem the growth of Protestantism in Germany. In alliance with the Habsburg emperors, the League’s forces, led by Johann Tserclaes, Graf von Tilly, played a key role.
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The Catholic League ( Latin: Liga Catholica, German: Katholische Liga) was a coalition of Catholic states of the Holy Roman Empire formed 10 July 1609. While initially formed as a confederation to act politically to negotiate issues vis-à-vis the Protestant Union (formed 1608), modelled on the more intransigent ultra-Catholic French Catholic ...
Dec 18, 2019 · The history of Neuschwanstein Castle. Commissioned in 1868 by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as a monument to German composer Richard Wagner, as with any fairytale, the story behind this castle’s creation is full of mystery and intrigue. It’s a tragic tale of a handsome young prince with a passion for music, art and architecture, who ascended ...
Nov 24, 2020 · Completed in 1886, Neuschwanstein was inspired by Ludwig II’s declared desire to live somewhere designed “in the authentic style of the old German knights”. Ironically the castle that Ludwig desired to be his own private sanctuary, built away from the public eye in a remote mountain setting, wasn’t completed until seven weeks after his ...
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Feb 24, 2023 · Led by charismatic and ambitious leaders such as Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, Johann von Kronberg, Georg von Greiffenklau, and Anselm von Umstadt, the Catholic League united various states such as Augsburg, Bamberg, Bavaria, Cologne, Constance, Eichstätt, Ellwangen, Kempten, Mainz, Passau, Speyer, Strasbourg, Trier, Worms, and Würzburg. With the support of the Vatican and the Holy Roman ...
German (Catholic) League. Only three years before the League was established, Duke Maximilian of Bavaria (d. 1651), who was afterwards its leading spirit, declared against the formation of a confederacy of the Catholic states of the empire in Germany, proposed by the spiritual electors. Soon after, however, in 1607, he emphasized the need of ...
Jul 8, 2019 · The fairytale Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. July 8, 2019. 170. Νestled in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, Neuschwanstein Castle, or Schloss Neuschwanstein in German, is one of the most famous and most photographed castles in the world. This iconic castle was built by Bavaria’s “fairytale king,” Ludwig II, to withdraw from public life ...
