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3 days ago · With the death of his grandfather Maximilian I and the accession of his now 19-year-old brother, Charles V, to the title of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, Ferdinand was entrusted with the government of the Austrian hereditary lands, roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia.
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3 days ago · Ferdinand II, Holy Roman emperor (1619–37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617–19, 1620–27), and king of Hungary (1618–25). He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist rule during the Thirty Years’ War.
5 days ago · Maximilian II, the eldest son, followed his father in Bohemia, Hungary, and the Austrian Danube territories (1564). The next son, Ferdinand, was endowed with Tirol and the Vorlande; Charles, the youngest of the brothers, received the Inner Austrian lands and took up residence in Graz .
4 days ago · What remains today is an empty but magnificently decorated tomb. It was Maximilian's grandson, Emperor Ferdinand I, who had the magnificent tomb transported to Innsbruck and erected as a cenotaph in the church he had built especially for him.
5 days ago · Charles was born in 1500, and was the grandson of both Maximilian, the Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand II, King of Spain. Charles would eventually inherit and rule both realms, as well as the Netherlands and the Spanish colonies in the New World.
1 day ago · After the failures of Gyula and Nagybánya in 1565, Maximilian, King Ferdinand’s successor, was already inclined to compromise – which was also justified by Suleiman’s last campaign in 1566 – and concluded the secret Treaty of Szatmár with his opponent, in which King János II abdicated the Hungarian throne.
5 days ago · Maximilian I, the son of the emperor Frederick III, was married to the Burgundian heiress, Mary, at Ghent in 1477. By that tie to Burgundy, the Habsburgs became involved in long struggles with France. After Mary’s death (1482), Maximilian, moreover, met with increasing difficulties in the Burgundian countries themselves.
