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Leopold II (Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard; 5 May 1747 – 1 March 1792) was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor, as well as King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. [1]
Leopold II [nb 1] (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand. Leopold was recognised contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorising ...
Emperor Joseph II and Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany (German: Kaiser Joseph II. und Großherzog Pietro Leopoldo von Toskana) is a 1769 portrait painting by the Italian painter Pompeo Batoni. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a dual portrait of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and his younger brother Leopold , then Grand Duke of Tuscany but who would later ...
Leopold II [a] (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from ...
Leopold II commonly refers to: Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792) Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) It may also refer to: Leopold II, Margrave of Austria (1050–1095) Leopold II, Duke of Austria (1328–1344) Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700–1751) Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796–1851) Leopold II, Grand Duke of ...
The Belgian line was founded by Leopold, youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Following Leopold's conversion to Catholicism to take the newly-created Belgian throne, this line of the house is Catholic. [citation needed] Leopold I (1831–1865) Leopold II (1865–1909) Albert I (1909–1934) Leopold III (1934–1951) Baudouin ...
Henry II, the first King of the House of Plantagenet, was a regular visitor to Southampton and established Southampton Castle. [21] The Castle was principally used to store the King's wine. [ 22 ] Surviving remains of 12th-century merchants’ houses such as King Johns House and Canute’s Palace are evidence of the wealth that existed in the ...
King Leopold II in the late 19th century. Leopold thought overseas colonies were of critical importance to become a great power, and worked to establish colonial possessions for Belgium. The national legislature did not authorize the colonial enterprise, and Leopold eventually acquired a colony in the Congo for himself with money loaned by the ...