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Ferdinand of Habsburg or Ferdinand Habsburg may refer to: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564) Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637) Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657) Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875) Ferdinand Habsburg (racing driver) (born 1997)
Charles of Habsburg was born on 24 February 1500 in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city of the Low Countries, to Archduke Philip of Habsburg and Princess Joanna of Trastámara. [6] His father Philip, nicknamed Philip the Handsome, was the firstborn son of Maximilian I of Habsburg , Archduke of Austria as well as Holy Roman Emperor , and ...
The Habsburg monarchy was a union of crowns, with only partial shared laws and institutions other than the Habsburg court itself; the provinces were divided in three groups: the Archduchy proper, Inner Austria that included Styria and Carniola, and Further Austria with Tyrol and the Swabian lands. The territorial possessions of the monarchy ...
The Erblande did not include either the Lands of the Bohemian Crown or the Lands of the Hungarian Crown, since both monarchies were elective when the Habsburg Ferdinand I was elected to their thrones in 1526. Ferdinand divided the Erblande between his three heirs in 1564 and they were not reunited until 1665. [2]
Ferdinand II was deposed as King of Bohemia and replaced by Frederick V of the Palatinate. Eventually, the conflict spread from an intrastate rebellion into a full-scale war between two religious groups: the Protestant North German states (which later included Denmark and Sweden ); and the Catholic powers of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs ...
Ferdinand Karl was the third son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 launched World War I, was his elder brother. He served as a major-general in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
The Fall of the House of Habsburg. Sphere Books Limited, London, 1970. (First published by Longmans in 1963.) Erbe, Michael (2000). Die Habsburger 1493–1918. Urban. Kohlhammer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-17-011866-9. Evans, Robert J. W. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation. Clarendon Press, 1979. Fichtner, Paula Sutter ...
Born on 4 December 1571 at the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, Ferdinand was the eldest child of Philip II and Anne of Austria. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His mother was Philip II's niece and fourth wife. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His elder half-brother, Don Carlos , had died in 1568, which meant that he was the new heir-apparent at birth and therefore Prince of Asturias .