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- Archduke Charles (born Sept. 5, 1771, Florence [Italy]—died April 30, 1847, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian archduke, field marshal, army reformer, and military theoretician who was one of the few Allied commanders capable of defeating the French generals of the Napoleonic period.
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Charles II, Archduke of Austria. Charles II Francis of Austria ( German: Karl II. Franz von Innerösterreich) (3 June 1540 – 10 July 1590) was an Archduke of Austria and a ruler of Inner Austria ( Styria, Carniola, Carinthia and Gorizia) from 1564. He was a member of the House of Habsburg .
NameBirthDeathNotesArchduke FerdinandJudenburg, 15 July 1572Judenburg, 3 August 1572Died in infancy.Graz, 16 August 1573Warsaw, 10 February 1598Married on 31 May 1592 to Sigismund III ...Graz, 10 November 1574Hall in Tirol, Tyrol, 6 April 1621Married on 6 August 1595 to Sigismund ...Graz, 4 January 1576Graz, 29 June 1599Died unmarried.Charles II as ruler of Inner Austria. As ruler over a dominion within the Habsburg Monarchy, Charles was confronted with the problems that were to determine the dynasty’s policies in the Early Modern age: the threat of Ottoman expansion and sectarian tensions.
Anonymous artist (monogram ‘LPum’): Archduke Charles II (1540-1590) with a view of Graz, oil painting, 1569 As the ruler of Inner Austria he founded his own branch of the House of Habsburg, which was to become the main line of the dynasty in the following generation.
Charles II. Archduke of Austria, from 1564 to his death in 1590 ruler of Inner Austria. Born in Vienna on 3 June 1540. Died in Graz on 10 July 1590. At the partition of the Habsburg domains under the sons of Emperor Ferdinand I the youngest son Charles was assigned the group of lands making up Inner Austria.
Apr 30, 2024 · Archduke Charles (born Sept. 5, 1771, Florence [Italy]—died April 30, 1847, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian archduke, field marshal, army reformer, and military theoretician who was one of the few Allied commanders capable of defeating the French generals of the Napoleonic period.
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Charles became Archduke of Inner Austria, elevated Graz to the status of a royal seat, promoted its urban development and established a well-functioning central administration. In the course of the violent recatholization of Inner Austria, Charles brought the Jesuits to Graz and entrusted them with running the newly founded Latin School and ...
The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Maria Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV of France. Acquisition of the Spanish Empire by either potentially threatened to alter the European balance of power in favour of France or Austria.
