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France also supported the protestant Dutch Republic in their independence struggle against Habsburg Spain. [ 6 ] The Thirty Years' War began in 1618 as a result of conflict between the Protestant estates in Bohemia and their Catholic monarch Ferdinand II , who was heir to Austria.
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)
Ferdinand was born in Graz as the third son of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria, and was baptised as Ferdinand Ernst. He grew up in Carinthia with loving care from his parents and developed great affection for his siblings and his father with whom he always found a consensus in future disagreements.
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]
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 ...
Elizabeth of Austria (Polish: Elżbieta Habsburżanka, Lithuanian: Elžbieta Habsburgaitė; 9 July 1526 – 15 June 1545) was Queen of Poland by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. [1]
Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646) [1] was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by her marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. [2] She acted as regent on several occasions during the absences of her husband, notably during his absence in Bohemia in 1645.
Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Österreich; 14 August 1532 – 10 September 1590) [1] was a co-founder and first abbess of the Ladies' Convent of Hall (Haller Damenstift), born an archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor.