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Maximilian II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576. A member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, he was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elected King of Germany on 24 November 1562. On 8 September 1563 he was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia in the Hungarian capital Pressburg . On 25 July 1564 he succeeded his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor.
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was always too risky. He was the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Portugal.
Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; Hungarian: I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 after the death of his elder brother ...
Biography: Maximilian I was a German monarch of the House of Habsburg. He served as the Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, expanding the influence of the Habsburg dynasty across Europe and implementing significant reforms in the empire. Maximilian I came into power after the unexpected death of his wife, Mary of Burgundy, in 1482 ...
MAXIMILIAN I, Roman emperor, son of the emperor Frederick III and Leonora, daughter of Edward, king of Portugal, was born at Vienna Neustadt on the 22nd of March 1459.On the 18th of August 1477, by his marriage at Ghent to Mary, who had just inherited Burgundy and the Netherlands from her father Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, he effected a union of great importance in the history of the ...
Signature. Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg . Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways: [1] an ineffectual ...
Maximilian I: ‘Early practice maketh a master emperor …’ Maximilian I as ruler of the Habsburg Hereditary Lands and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; Maximilian and the emperorship: a balancing act between utopia and reality; Maximilian and the Habsburg matrimonial policy; Maximilian and the Burgundian inheritance ; Burgundy: a late ...