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Archduke Rudolf, aged 15, painted by Alonso Sánchez Coello. Rudolf was born in Vienna on 18 July 1552. [2] He was the eldest son and successor of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia; his mother was the Spanish Princess Maria, a daughter of Charles V [2] and Isabella of Portugal.
Son of Ferdinand I, grandson of Vladislaus II. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor. Rudolph II (Rudolf II.) 1576–1612 Son of Maximilian I. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor. Matthias II (Matyáš II.) 1612–1615 Brother of Rudolph II. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor. Ferdinand II: 1615–1619,1620-1637 Cousin of ...
Ferdinand II 1578–1617 King of Bohemia r. 1617–1619, 1620–1637 also Holy Roman Emperor: Anna of Austria-Tyrol 1575–1618: Matthias II 1557–1619 King of Bohemia r. 1611–1619 also Holy Roman Emperor: Margaret of Austria 1584–1611: Philip III 1578–1621 King of Spain: Ferdinand I of Tuscany 1549–1609: Frederick the Winter King 1596 ...
Matthias was born in the Austrian capital of Vienna as the fourth son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and of Maria of Spain.His brothers were Rudolf (who became Emperor Rudolf II), Ernest, Maximilian (from 1585 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order), Albert (archbishop of Toledo, later governor of the Netherlands), and Wenceslaus (Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile).
The Letter of Majesty (1609) was a 17th-century European document, reluctantly signed by Rudolf II in his capacity as king of Bohemia, granting religious tolerance to both Protestant and Catholic citizens living in the estates of Bohemia. [1] The letter also created a Bohemian Protestant State Church, run by said estates. [2]
Although some former rulers of Bohemia had enjoyed a non-hereditary royal title during the 11th and 12th centuries (Vratislaus II, Vladislaus II), the kingdom was formally established (by elevating Duchy of Bohemia) in 1198 by Přemysl Ottokar I, who had his status acknowledged by Philip of Swabia, elected King of the Romans, in return for his support against the rival Emperor Otto IV.
Rudolf I (c. 1282 – 3/4 July 1307), also known as Rudolf of Habsburg, was a member of the House of Habsburg, the King of Bohemia and titular King of Poland from 1306 until his death. He was also Duke of Austria (as Rudolf III ) and Styria from 1298.
Rudolph, Holy Roman Emperor may refer to: Rudolf I of Germany (1218–1291), King of the Romans Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria