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In 1508, Maximilian, with the assent of Pope Julius II, took the title Erwählter Römischer Kaiser ("Elected Roman Emperor"), thus ending the centuries-old custom that the Holy Roman Emperor had to be crowned by the Pope. Execution of the garrison troops after the Siege of Kufstein (1504).
Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devout Catholics.
Charles V (1500–1558), king of Spain, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire [103] Isabella (1501–1526), queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; Ferdinand (1503-1564), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1556-1564) Mary (1505–1558), queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia, governor of the Spanish Netherlands; Catherine (1507–1578), queen ...
When Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I of Habsburg was born on 10 March 1503, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, his father, Rey Felipe I Habsburg de Castilla y la Rioja, was 24 and his mother, Reina Juana I de Castilla, was 23.
The Armor of Emperor Ferdinand I is a suit of plate armor created by the Nuremberg armorer Kunz Lochner in 1549 for the future Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. One of several suits of armor made for the Emperor Ferdinand during the wars of Reformation and conflict with the Ottomans, the etched but functional armor is thought by scholars to symbolize and document the role of the Habsburg ...
Archduke Rudolf, aged 15, painted by Alonso Sánchez Coello. Rudolf was born in Vienna on 18 July 1552. [2] He was the eldest son and successor of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia; his mother was the Spanish Princess Maria, a daughter of Charles V [2] and Isabella of Portugal.
Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.
