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	Albert II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Albert II Habsburg (August 10, 1397 – October 27, 1439), German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was born on August 10, 1397, the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria.
		Her maternal grandfather was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughyter of Stephen V of Hungary).
		When Sigismund died in 1437, Albert was crowned king of Hungary on January 1, 1438, and although crowned king of Bohemia six months later, he was unable to obtain possession of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (610 words)

	AllRefer.com - Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Albert II 1397–1439, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1438–39), duke of Austria (1404–38).
		He was the son-in-law of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, whom he aided against the Hussites of Bohemia.
		Albert was unable to suppress the Bohemian revolts (see Hussite Wars) and subsequently died on a disastrous campaign against the Turks.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Albert2HRE.html (195 words)

	Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The third and last German Emperor and fourth Bohemian king of the Luxembourg dynasty, Sigismund, second son of the Emperor Charles IV, was born in Nuremberg.
		In 1410, in a disputed election, Sigismund was elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
		As emperor, Sigismund was instrumental in helping convene the Council of Constance (1414 - 1418), which ended the Papal schism and — of great consequence to Sigismund's future career — burned the Czech religious reformer Jan Hus at the stake for heresy in July 1415.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sigismund,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (560 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
		Constantinople and the empire were divided among the emperor, the Venetians, and the chief crusaders; the Marquis of Montferrat received Thessalonica and Macedonia, with the title of king; Henry of Flanders became Lord of Adramyttion; Louis of Blois was made Duke of Nicæa, and fiefs were bestowed upon six hundred knights.
		Meanwhile Emperor Frederick II, who was to be the leader of the crusade, had remained in Europe and continued to importune the pope for new postponements of his departure.
		In 1390 Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, took the cross, and at the instigation of the Genoese went to besiege el-Mahadia, an African city on the coast of Tunis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm (11618 words)

	Albert II of Germany -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He assisted the German emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Sigismund) Sigismund, who was also king of Hungary and Bohemia, in his campaigns against the (An adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss) Hussites, and in 1422 married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sigismund, who designated him as his successor.
		He was engaged in warfare with the Bohemians and their Polish allies, when on March 18, 1438 he was chosen as German emperor at (A German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center) Frankfurt, an honour which he does not appear to have sought.
		He thus was "King of the Romans", but he was not crowned as (Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire) Holy Roman Emperor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/albert_ii_of_germany1.htm (564 words)

	Joseph Ii Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joseph II (March 13, 1741 - February 20, 1790) was a Holy Roman Emperor (1765 - 1790).
		Where Joseph differed from great contemporary rulers, and where he was very close akin to the Jacobins, was in the fanatical intensity of his belief in the power of the state when directed by reason, of his right to speak for the state uncontrolled by laws, and of the reasonableness of his own reasons.
		Joseph II married twice, firstly Isabella, daughter of Philip, duke of Parma, to whom he was attached.
	www.wikiverse.org /joseph-ii-holy-roman-emperor (1524 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Justinian
		The emperor's motive may have been the danger on the eastern front as much as distrust of Belisarius, but in any case, Belisarius, with important Goths including Witigis and Matasuintha, and the Gothic treasure, made their way to the capital, where the emperor's greeting was cool and mistrustful.
		Justin I became emperor in 518, the 'Acacian Schism' still existed and Vitalian, who had raised rebellion twice against the Monophysite emperor Anastasius, driven by a combination of orthodox zeal and ambition, was still lurking in his native province of Scythia Minor with the remains of his military force.
		Emperors issued new constitutions and rescripts which had the force of law, but they were not systematically published and even the imperial archives did not always keep copies of new laws.
	www.roman-emperors.org /justinia.htm (9963 words)

	Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leopold II (1747-1792), Roman emperor, and grand-duke of Tuscany, son of the empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis Stephen of Lorraine, was born in Vienna on May 5, 1747.
		He and Joseph II were tenderly attached to one another, and met frequently both before and after the death of their mother, while the portrait by Pompeo Baltoni[?] in which they appear together shows that they bore a strong personal resemblance to one another.
		He was still in Florence when Joseph II died at Vienna on February 20, 1790, and he did not leave his Italian capital till the disturbances consequent on the failure of the campaign in Lombardy led to the resignation of the Ridolfi ministry, which was succeeded by that of Gino Capponi.
	www.city-search.org /le/leopold-ii,-holy-roman-emperor.html (1677 words)

	Hapsburgs
		Albrecht I served as Holy Roman Emperor from 1298 to 1308, and duke of Austria from 1282 to 1308.
		Albert II served as Holy Roman Emperor (1438-39), as well as duke of Austria (1404-39) under the name Albert V. He inherited the duchy in 1404, and in 1437 succeeded his father-in-law, the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, as king of Bohemia and Hungary.
		Born in Vienna, the son and successor of Emperor Maximilian II, Rudolf II of Habsburg served as Holy Roman Emperor (1576-1612), King of Hungary (1572-1608), and King of Bohemia (1575-1611).
	www.geocities.com /historyofaustria/habsburgs.html (6790 words)

	The Holy Roman Empire
		Ruler: Emperor Frederick III, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.
		Born 1415, Elected 'King of the Romans' 1440, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1452 in Rome, marrying Eleanor of Portugal at the same ceremony.
		The Holy Roman Empire straddles Europe with borders that in theory stretch from Rome to the Baltic and from the Rhone and Meuse in the west to Prussia and Prague in the east.
	freespace.virgin.net /sheldon.stevens/hre.html (712 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty the Hapsburgs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His son Philip II comanded vast armies and navies, but their blind religious faith was to lead to devestating religious wars in Germany and Spain becoming a backwater of Europe.
		Rudolf seized the Babenberg inheritance (the duchies of Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola) from King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1278.
		Francis II realising that Napoleon was dismantling the Holy Roman Empire, declared himself Emperor of Austria to retain the imperial title.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ost/haps/erf-haps.htm (1708 words)

	End of Europe's Middle Ages - Holy Roman Empire
		A political empire imposed across geographic and ethnic boundaries, at the start of the fourteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire was comprised of present-day Germany and extended across Prussia, Hungary, Bohemia, Switzerland, and parts of southern and northern Italy.
		In an attempt to eliminate papal interference from German politics, Louis IV (1287-1347), in association with German princes, issued the Declaration of Rense in 1338 that stated that the emperor would be elected by an electoral college of German princes and that papal confirmation was unnecessary.
		The last emperor of the late Middle Ages was Maximilian I of Habsburg (1459-1519) who expanded the Holy Roman Empire and firmly established the Habsburg dynasty as a European power.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/holy.html (901 words)

	LEOPOLD II, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leopold II (born ''Peter Leopold Joseph'') (Vienna, May_5, 1747 – Vienna, March_1, 1792) was Holy_Roman_Emperor from 1790 to 1792 and Grand-duke of Tuscany.
		A personal appeal to Frederick_William_II led to a conference between them at Reichenbach in July 1790, and to an arrangement which was in fact a defeat for Prussia: Leopold's coronation as king of Hungary on November_11, 1790, preceded by a settlement with the diet in which he recognized the dominant position of the Magyars.
		During 1791, the emperor continued to be increasingly preoccupied with the affairs of France.
	www.witwib.com /Leopold_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1601 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Emperors are commonly known by particular parts of their names, or by nicknames, e.g.
		Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453).
		This was the end of Roman Gaul, 541 years after Caesar had completed its conquest in 56 BC -- or perhaps 531 years since the defeat, capture, and death of the rebel Vercingetorix in 46 BC.
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	Timeline Holy Roman Empire
		The Catholic heir to the Hapsburg dynasty, Charles V, was elected Holy Roman Emperor, combining the crowns of Spain, Burgundy (with the Netherlands), Austria and Germany.
		1576 Rudolf II was crowned King of the Holy Roman Empire and moved the Imperial Court from Vienna to Prague.
		1640 Jun 9, Leopold I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1658-1705), was born.
	www.timelines.ws /countries/HOLY_ROMAN_EMP.HTML (2895 words)

	Kingdoms of Germany - The Holy Roman Emperor
		Charles I of Spain, II of Holland, I of Austria.
		Formal end of the Holy Roman Empire (First Reich) as it is dissolved by Emperor Napoleon I of France (the Prussian-led Second Reich forms in 1871).
		The Habsburg emperors revert to their Austrian title, raising the former archduchy to the status of Austrian Empire, as it still holds almost all its eastern territories.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GermanyHRE.htm (441 words)

	Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor
		Albert II Albert II, 1397–1439, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1438–39), duke of Austria (1404–38).
		Holy Roman Empire, The: Chapter XIV: The Germanic Constitution: The Seven Electors.
		Holy Roman Empire, The: Chapter XIX: Peace Of Westphalia: Last Stage In The Decline Of The Empire (History of the World)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0803070.html (171 words)

	Albert I, Holy Roman Emperor
		Albert was invested with Austria and Styria in 1282 by his father, who also hoped to secure the succession as king of the Germans for Albert.
		As king, Albert attempted to strengthen Hapsburg claims for a hereditary dynasty by allying (1299) with Philip IV of France, by supporting the Rhine towns against the Rhenish imperial electors, and by unsuccessfully attempting (1300) to add Holland and Zeeland to the Hapsburg domains.
		Holy Roman Empire, The: Chapter XVII: The Renaissance: Change In The Character Of The Empire.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0803069.html (278 words)

	Sly's Fifteenth Century TimeLine
		Sigismund, the king of Hungary is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
		Hussite Wars begin between the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church.Sigismund succeeded to the throne of Bohemia.
		Louis X of France decides that three-year-old Margaret, the daughter of the Duchess of Burgundy would be a better wife for the Dauphin than Elizabeth of York, to whom the Dauphin was previously engaged.
	www.edwardsly.com /1400-99.html (1128 words)

	The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
		This was a thinly populated backwater for the Turks, noteworthy mainly for Roman ruins and piracy (with U.S. Marines landing at Tripoli in 1801).
		Thus King Ferdinand was the grandson of a first cousin of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (Ferdinand of Portugal, the brother of Augustus, Prince of Coburg, who was the father of Ferdinand of Bulgaria), and he married one of their own granddaughters, Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
		King Carol II then married Helen of Greece, who was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, through her mother Sophia, the sister of Kaiser Wilhlem II of Germany.
	www.friesian.com /turkia.htm (13594 words)

	Encyclopedia: Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Other descriptions of Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor
		Albert II Habsburg (August 10, 1397 - October 27, 1439), German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was born on August 10, 1397, the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria.
		He thus was "King of the Romans", but he was not crowned as Turks, he died on October 27, 1439 at Langendorf, and was buried at Stuhlweissenburg.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albert-II,-Holy-Roman-Emperor (405 words)

	Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He acceded as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1440 and was married to Eleanore of Portugal.
		For the last ten years of Frederick's life he and his son co-ruled as emperors.
		And so we and to Islington, thinking to have met my Lady Pen and wife, but they Cheapside and I home, and there after a little while making of my tune to yesterday.
	www.city-search.org /fr/frederick-iii,-holy-roman-emperor.html (334 words)

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	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor\|Charles V Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.echostatic.com /Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor\|Charles_V.html (194 words)

	Articles - Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, his distant kinsman Frederick, the ruler of Inner Austria, was chosen as his father's successor as Holy Roman Emperor.
		Ladislaus' mother thus compelled the primate to crown the infant king at Székesfehérvár on 15 May 1440; whereupon, for safety's sake, she placed the child in the guardianship of his distant Habsburg relative, the emperor Frederick III (then ruler of Inner Austria), who held him prisoner in Castle Orth and ruled Austria himself.
		On the death of Wladislaus I in the Battle of Varna (10 November 1444), the Hungarian estates, not without considerable opposition, elected Ladislaus Postumus as their king and sent a deputation to Vienna to induce the emperor to surrender the child and the holy crown, which Frederick first refused.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Ladislaus_Posthumus_of_Bohemia_and_Hungary (763 words)

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