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4 days ago · The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over Louis the German in 843 through to Wilhelm II in 1918. It shows how almost every single ruler of Germany was related to every other by marriages, and hence they can all be put into a single tree.
5 days ago · The prince-elector of Bavaria, Maximilian IV Joseph formally assumed the title King Maximilian I of Bavaria on 1 January 1806. The well-known so called Märchenkönig (Fairy tale king) Ludwig II constructed Neuschwanstein Castle , Herrenchiemsee , and Linderhof Palace during his reign (1864–1886), threatening not only to go bankrupt in person ...
5 days ago · The legacy of Maximilian I is a complex one. He did much to centralize authority in the Holy Roman Empire, and he made alliances that bolstered the Habsburg claim to supremacy in Europe. He took a special interest in weaponry and fighting, particularly hunting and jousting, but his successes on the battlefield were few and far between.
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5 days ago · Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (German: Franz Joseph Karl [fʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈkaʁl]; Hungarian: Ferenc József Károly [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈjoːʒɛf ˈkaːroj]; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.
- 2 December 1848 – 21 November 1916
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4 days ago · grand duke, Click Here to see full-size table title of sovereign princes ranking between kings and dukes and of certain members of the Russian imperial family.. The first grand duchy of western Europe was that of Tuscany, the title of grand duke being accorded by Pope Pius V to Cosimo de’ Medici in 1569 and recognized, for Cosimo’s son Francesco, by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II in ...
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4 days ago · Eighty years ago St. Maximilian Kolbe died in Auschwitz on August 14 after volunteering to take the place of a father in the concentration camp’s starvation bunker. Today devotion to the saint continues to spread, including as an intercessor for the family, according to a theologian in Rome.
2 days ago · Price: £49.95. Early Stuart foreign policy remains a relatively neglected topic, despite mounting evidence for the importance of international religious conflicts in British political culture and the strains imposed by the demands of war on the British state. Jonathan Scott has recently called for a systematic rethinking of the period based on ...
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