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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 ...
The Habsburg monarchy, [i] also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, [j] was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is also referred to as the Austrian monarchy (Latin: Monarchia Austriaca) or the Danubian monarchy. [k] [2]
Born in the castle in Graz on 9 July 1578, Ferdinand was the son of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and Maria of Bavaria. [1] Charles II, who was the youngest son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, had inherited the Inner Austrian provinces—Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Gorizia, Fiume, Trieste and parts of Istria and Friuli—from his father in 1564. [2]
All about the House of Habsburg. Netflix recently dropped the historical drama, 'The Empress,' and fans have a lot of questions about who the royals were IRL. All about the House of Habsburg.
The two armies united and moved north into Bohemia. Ferdinand II decisively defeated Frederick V at the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague, on 8 November 1620. In addition to becoming almost entirely Catholic, Bohemia would remain in Habsburg hands for nearly three hundred years.
The Oñate treaty of 6 June 1617 was a secret treaty between the Austrian and Spanish branches of the House of Habsburg.. The senior Habsburg branch of Spanish king Philip III reached an agreement with the junior Habsburg branch of Austrian archduke Ferdinand II concerning allocation of key holdings still in dispute following the division of the House of Habsburg.
The Further Austrian/Tyrolean line of Ferdinand's brother Archduke Leopold V survived until the death of his son Sigismund Francis in 1665, whereafter their territories ultimately returned to common control with the other Austrian Habsburg lands. Ferdinand II, emperor 1619–1637 ; Ferdinand III, emperor 1637–1657 (→Family Tree)
After the celebration of Ferdinand II's obsequies on 14 March 1516, Charles was crowned king in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula of Brussels as Charles I of Spain or Charles I of Castile and Aragon, controlling both Spanish crowns in personal union. [20] Joanna confined in Tordesillas.