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Frederick III (German: Friedrich III, 21 September 1415 – 19 August 1493) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope , and the last to be crowned in Rome .
Frederick III (born Sept. 21, 1415, Innsbruck, Austria—died Aug. 19, 1493, Linz) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1452 and German king from 1440 who laid the foundations for the greatness of the House of Habsburg in European affairs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frederick III (born Feb. 14, 1515, Simmern, Ger.—died Oct. 26, 1576, Heidelberg, Rhenish Palatinate) was the elector Palatine of the Rhine (1559–76) and a leader of the German Protestant princes who worked for a Protestant victory in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Died in Linz on 19 August 1493. Motto: A.E.I.O.U. Lasting fifty-three years, Frederick’s reign was the longest of any king or emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He was tenacious rather than decisive – he succeeded in overcoming many of his political adversaries simply by surviving them.
Frederick III was the longest-reigning emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, ruling for 53 years. He is also famous for his device composed of the letter sequence ‘AEIOU’, although it has never been conclusively decoded. Frederick was born in 1415 to Ernest ‘the Iron’ and Cymburgis of Masovia.
Frederick (III) was a German king from 1314 to 1326, also duke of Austria (as Frederick III) from 1308, the second son of the German king Albert I. After his father’s murder (1308) Frederick became the head of the House of Habsburg and duke of Austria but did not succeed him as king, the count of.
After his elder brother Rudolf III had been enfeoffed with the crown of Bohemia following the extinction of the Bohemian royal Přemyslid dynasty in 1306, the way was clear for the younger son to take over the rulership of Austria and Styria.
