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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria ( Linz, 14 June 1529 – 24 January 1595, Innsbruck) was ruler of Further Austria and since 1564 Imperial count of Tyrol. The son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, he was married to Philippine Welser in his first marriage.
Ferdinand II (born July 9, 1578, Graz, Styria [now in Austria]—died February 15, 1637, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor (1619–37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617–19, 1620–27), and king of Hungary (1618–25).
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.
Died in Vienna on 15 February 1637. Motto: ‘Legitime Certantibus - With those fighting in a just cause’. Ferdinand was a belligerent and ruthless monarch: as ruler over Inner Austria he relentlessly implemented the re-Catholicization of his subjects by means of ‘Reformation commissions’ which toured the land.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
Ferdinand II, (born July 9, 1578, Graz, Styria—died Feb. 15, 1637, Vienna), Holy Roman emperor (1619–37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617–19, 1620–27) and king of Hungary (1618–25).
He was the second son of Archduke Charles of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria. Ferdinand was marked for life by the religious fundamentalism that surrounded him as he grew up. The court at Graz around 1600 was the centre of the Counter Reformation in the Austrian Lands.
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