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Georg Friedrich. The German Emperor ( German: Deutscher Kaiser, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈkaɪzɐ] ⓘ) was the official title of the head of state and hereditary ruler of the German Empire. A specifically chosen term, it was introduced with the 1 January 1871 constitution and lasted until the official abdication of Wilhelm II on 9 November ...
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Son of Frederick III; King of Germany under his father, 1486–1493; assumed the title "Elected Emperor" in 1508 with the pope's approval Charles V (Karl V.) 28 June 1519 28 June 1519 3 August 1556 Grandson of Maximilian I; died 21 September 1558. Last Emperor to receive the imperial coronation from the Pope. Ferdinand I (Ferdinand I.) 5 ...
Seal/portraitNameKingEmperorConrad III (Konrad III.)7 March 1138—15 February 1152Henry Berengar (Heinrich (VI.))30 March 1147—August? 1150Frederick I Barbarossa (Friedrich I.4 March 115218 June 115510 June 1190Henry VI (Heinrich VI.)15 August 116915 April 119128 September 1197Mar 6, 2024 · Ferdinand I (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died July 25, 1564, Vienna, Habsburg domain [now in Austria]) was the Holy Roman emperor (1558–64) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, who, with his Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise of Lutheranism by recognizing the right of territorial princes to determine the ...
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Ferdinand was Emperor Franz II (I)’s elder son and thus the ‘legitimate’ heir to his father’s throne. As he was an epileptic, he was not exactly a promising prospect for the office of emperor – as a result, he was ridiculed as ‘Nandl the idiot’ (‘Nandl der Trottel’ or ‘Nanderltrotterl’). Nevertheless, Franz adamantly upheld the ‘legitimate’ succession of his son, not ...
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; [a] 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern 's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg . Born during the reign of his granduncle ...
Ferdinand served as Archduke of Austria for more than four decades. He lived there and learned the German language and the culture of Austria and of the German territories. Maximilian had, in 1515, arranged Ferdinand's marriage to Anne Jagiellonica, whose father was King Vladislau II of Bohemia and Hungary.
When his older brother became Holy Roman Emperor* as Charles V, Ferdinand received Habsburg lands in Austria. This began the historic split between the German and Spanish branches of the Habsburg family. Ferdinand married the sister of King Louis of Hungary and Bohemia. When Louis died in 1526, Ferdinand succeeded to the two thrones.
