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4 days ago · Roman Catholicism. Signature. Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. [1] [2] Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder ...
2 days ago · Charles V [c] [d] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg.
- 28 June 1519 –, 27 August 1556
- Philip I of Castile
- 22 September 1558, El Escorial, Spain
- Catholicism
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Mar 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 righ...
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4 days ago · Mother. Maria Anna of Bavaria. Religion. Roman Catholicism. Signature. 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.
- 28 August 1619 – 15 February 1637
- Maria Anna of Bavaria
4 days ago · Maximilian I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor, was a giant figure on the European stage, dominating events throughout the Continent for several decades in the 15th and 16th Centuries. His military and political successes set up his Habsburg line well to exert supremacy for many years to come.
Mar 20, 2024 · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55. By Vincenzo De Meulenaere.
Mar 15, 2024 · Maximilian II was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany for a time in the mid-16th Century. He was born on July 31, 1527, in Vienna. His father was the eventual Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I, and his mother was Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.