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The process of beatification was officially started in 1949. An ‘Emperor Karl Prayer League for Peace among the Nations’ formed which constituted the driving force behind the process. In 1995 a ‘positio’, a 2,650-page documentation of the life and work of the former emperor confirming the saintly nature of his life and conduct, was ...
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.
Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death in 1291. Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum which had begun after the death of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II in 1250.
He married his third wife, Matilda of Habsburg, daughter of Rudolph I of Germany, on 24 October 1273. Their children were: Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (4 October 1274, Basel – 12 August 1319). Matilda (Mechthild) of Bavaria, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1275 – 28 March 1319, Lüneburg), married 1288 to Duke Otto II of Brunswick-Lüneburg
28 of the best book quotes from Matilda. “I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”. “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad.
Franz Joseph, the supreme bureaucrat. A young lad becomes emperor and is intent on remaining so for a long time – Franz Joseph’s extensive reign has caused posterity to regard him as the very epitome of the Habsburg Monarchy. However, this period was far from being a pure idyll. On 2 December 1848, at a mere eighteen years of age, Franz ...
Matilda was the eldest daughter of Rudolf I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She became the third wife of Louis II, Duke of Bavaria, on 24 October 1273 in Aachen. Matilda and Louis had the following children: Agnes (d. 1345); married firstly, in 1290 in Donauwörth, Henry the Younger of Hesse.
