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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. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Ferdinand I 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 right of territorial princes to determine the religion of their.
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Apr 15, 2024 · Ferdinand (I) (born April 19, 1793, Vienna, Austria—died June 29, 1875, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary) was the emperor of Austria from 1835 to 1848, when he abdicated his throne. Ferdinand was the eldest son of the Holy Roman emperor Francis II (later Francis I of Austria) and Maria Theresa of Naples-Sicily.
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Ferdinand I. Archduke of Austria, infante of Spain; ruler in the Austrian patrimonial dominions (from 1521) and in Tyrol (from 1522); king of Bohemia and Hungary (from 1526); as Roman King (from 1531) viceroy of his brother Emperor Charles V in the Holy Roman Empire; from 1556 emperor of the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1564.
A s king of Hungary and Bohemia*, Ferdinand I played an important role in keeping Turkish invaders out of central Europe in the 1500s. He was also a generous patron* of the arts and learning. A member of the powerful Habsburg dynasty, Ferdinand was the second son of Juana, heir to the Spanish throne, and the Archduke Philip, son of emperor ...
Ferdinand was elected King of the Romans in 1531 and Emperor in 1556 following his brother Charles’s abdication. He died only eight years later.
The main line was to rule in Lower and Upper Austria and to wear the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary, to which Ferdinand’s eldest son Maximilian II succeeded. The later-born sons Ferdinand and Charles received Tyrol and the Austrian Forelands, and Inner Austria respectively. Emperor Ferdinand I died in Vienna in 1564.
