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Maximilian II (31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576. A member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, he was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elected King of Germany ( King of the Romans) on 24 November 1562. On 8 September 1563 he was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia in ...
MAXIMILIAN I, Roman emperor, son of the emperor Frederick III and Leonora, daughter of Edward, king of Portugal, was born at Vienna Neustadt on the 22nd of March 1459.On the 18th of August 1477, by his marriage at Ghent to Mary, who had just inherited Burgundy and the Netherlands from her father Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, he effected a union of great importance in the history of the ...
Type. Oil on linden wood. Dimensions. 74 cm × 62 cm (29 in × 24 in) Location. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1519 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria. It portrays the emperor Maximilian I .
Jun 29, 2011 · Kaiser Maximilian I. 2 vols. Vienna: Geyer, 1967. Originally published in 1884. The author skipped lightly over the emperor’s childhood and experiences as territorial overlord of Burgundy. The focus of intense archival research is on the political and administrative history of Germany during Maximilian’s reign between 1486 and 1519.
Mar 29, 2024 · Maximilian I of Habsburg (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans from 1493 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death. He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from circa 1483.
Maximilian’s father, Frederick V from the Styrian line of the dynasty, had claimed the inheritance of the Austrian line, and in 1490, as successor to Duke Siegmund, Maximilian was able to unite Tyrol and the Forelands with the rest of the patrimonial dominions. The same year saw the death of Matthias Corvinus, Frederick’s long-standing enemy. To his father’s immense joy,
Although Emperor Maximilian I, a son of Frederick III, is principally known for his policy of dynastic marriage, he by no means fought shy of war: within forty years he conducted no fewer than twenty-five military campaigns. He was elected Roman-German king in 1486 and became regent in 1493 following his father’s death. Maximilian’s wars created difficulties with respect to
