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Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy ...
Ferdinand II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria , who were devout Catholics .
Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death. Ferdinand ascended the throne at the beginning of the last decade of the Thirty Years' War and introduced lenient policies to depart from the old ...
Brother of Ferdinand IV. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor. Joseph I (Josef I.) 1705–1711 Son of Leopold I. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor. Charles II (Karel II.) 1711–1740 Brother of Joseph I. Also King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor as Charles VI. Maria Theresa (Marie Terezie) 1740–1741,1743-1780 Daughter of ...
In 1646, Ferdinand IV became King of Bohemia, sharing the role and that of Duke of Cieszyn with his father Emperor Ferdinand III. He was crowned on 5 August 1646. [3] [4] Ferdinand IV also shared the role of King of Hungary and Croatia with his father; his coronation took place on 16 June 1647 in Pressburg, present-day Slovakia. [1] [3]
The victorious restored King Ferdinand II decided to force every inhabitant of Bohemia and Moravia to become Roman Catholic in accordance with the principle cuius regio, eius religio of the Peace of Augsburg (1555). The Bohemian Reformation ended up being diffused in the Protestant world and gradually lost its distinctiveness. [6]
Emperor Ferdinand may refer to: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503–1564), Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, and king of Croatia from 1527 until his death Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637), Holy Roman Emperor 1619–1637, King of Bohemia 1617–1619, 1620–1637, and King of Hungary 1618–1625
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637), also Ferdinand II of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia; Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657), also Ferdinand III of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia; Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633–1654), also King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia; Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875), also ...