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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg16 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Ernst, Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 15 Jun 1553 in Wien, Wien, Austria.
Maximilian, Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 12 Oct 1558 in Wiener-Neustadt, Niederhosterreich, Austria.
Friedrich, Archduke Of AUSTRIA was born on 21 Jun 1562 in Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria.
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 Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II Maximilian II of the Habsburg dynasty was born July 31, 1527 at Vienna and died October 12, 1576 in Regensburg.
Maximilian was king of Bohemia from 1562, king of Hungary from 1563 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1564 until his death.
Maximilian's policies of religious neutrality and peace in the Empire afforded its Roman Catholics and Protestants a breathing-space after the first struggles of the Reformation.
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 Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg family.
Maximilian was born in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, the second son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and his wife Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Bayern.
Maximilian's body was mutilated by Mexican republicans before being buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, Austria, early the following year.
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 Maximilian I of Mexico -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maximilian was born as His Imperial Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, Prince of (A republic in central Europe) Hungary and (A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic) Bohemia.
Maximilian ordered a wide avenue cut through the city from Chapultepec to the city center; originally named Avenue of the Emperor, it is today Mexico City's famous (Click link for more info and facts about Paseo de la Reforma) Paseo de la Reforma.
Maximilian's papers were published at (A city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center) Leipzig in 1867, in seven volumes, under the title Aus meinem Leben, Reiseskizzen, Aphorismen, Gedichte.
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 Maximilian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Archduke Maximilian was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, and his wife, Princess Charlotte, was the daughter of King Leopold of Belgium.
Maximilian accepted with two conditions: first, that the Mexican people request that he become their ruler; and second, that France support the regime with its military and finances.
Maximilian refused to abandon "his people" and faced a Mexican firing squad with dignity.
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 Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen d'Este
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen was born at Graz on 18 July 1863, son of Karl Ludwig, Kaiser Franz Josef's second brother.
While the ascension of his son, Archduke Maximilian, to the throne of Austria was prevented, Franz Ferdinand's heir was not prevented from ascending the throne of Hungary, whose royal laws did not hinge on Habsburg family law.
After the Archduke was assassinated, the Serbs and other Entente sources claimed that the deed was perpetrated by either the Kaiser's secret police in retaliation for his morganatic marriage or by the Magyars themselves, who feared the Archdule's plans for their Kingdom.
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Maximilian, having no explicit duties as a young man, had become one of the best traveled royals of his day and dubbed himself the “sailor prince.” Both Maximilian and his new bride were of a studious, curious, and intelligent nature, and felt that some station was rightfully theirs.
Maximilian was soon forced from the castle in Mexico City by the liberals and retreated with his few remaining loyal supporters to the town of Queretaro.
Maximilian had left explicit orders for the preservation of his body which was to be mummified and placed in a coffin for his eventual return across the Atlantic.
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 Maximilian of Mexico : Archduke Maxmilian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(Maximilian was not told of the dubious nature of the plebescite, which was taken by the French troops occupying the city.) Maximilian's decision was contrary to the advice of his brother, the emperor Francis Joseph, and involved the loss of all his rights in Austria.
Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in difficulties of the most serious kind, as the Mexican Liberales and Republicans, led by President Benito Juarez, refused to recognize his rule, and there was continuous warfare between the French troops and the Mexican Republicans.
To the dismay of his Conservativo allies, Maximilian upheld several liberal reforms of the Juarez adminstration such as land reform, allowing freedom of religion, and extending the vote beyond the landholding class.
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 Mexican Americans - Emperor Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (1864-67). As the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, he ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, he was denied a share in the imperial government by his reactionary brother, Emperor Francis Joseph.
Maximilian served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and was governor general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857-59), but he found no outlet for his dreams of liberal reform.
She married (1857) Maximilian, archduke of Austria and accompanied him when he went to Mexico as emperor (1864).
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 Maximilian of Mexico History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The second son of Archduke Franz Karl and the Archduchess Sophie of Austria was born in the palace of Schönbrunn in Vienna on the 6th July, 1832.
Ferdinand Maximilian's liberalism aroused less enthusiasm in Vienna, however, where he was increasingly seen as being in opposition to his imperial brother's government.
Maximilian and his loyal generals Miramón and Mejía were arraigned before a military tribunal and condemned to death.
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 Justo Armas
The Archduke, who no longer made use of his titles of nobility and now, known as 'Justo Armas,' fell in love with Doña Amelie Arthés de Lardé, and the first and only male child of the Archduke was born.
Maximilian's brief rule in Mexico collapsed in 1867, shortly after Napoleon III withdrew the French troops that had established and maintained him on his throne.
Maximilian was soon captured by the forces of the Mexican Republic headed by Benito Juárez, and he was tried by court martial, sentenced to death, and executed on the Cerro de las Campanas near Querétaro in 1867.
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 HISTORY OF MEXICO - MAXIMILIAN AND CARLOTA: THE "ARCHDUPE" AND HIS TRAGIC LADY - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
Wags have referred to Archduke Maximilian as an "archdupel" -- a well-intentioned man who took on an imperial mission after having been gulled by scheming manipulators into believing that he would be ruling over a population that genuinely adored him.
Maximilian had an Indian mistress in Cuernavaca and, according to contemporary historians, she gave birth to a boy in 1866.
As for Carlota, she was having an affair with a Belgian officer in Maximilian's army, Colonel Alfred van der Smissens, and was pregnant when she went to Europe to plead her husband's cause.
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 Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Shortly afterwards, in the chapel of the Reichstadt Castle in Bohemia, the marriage was solemnized.
In later years, the Archduke preferred, in general, to spend the pre-carnival days with his wife far from Vienna until His Majesty, in 1910, raised the Princess to the rank of Duchess of Hohenberg with the title 'Highness', which meant that she could henceforth make her entrance immediately after the youngest Archduchess at the Ball.
The Archduke was the victim of his noble and humane altruism, which caused him to disregard the customary safety precautions.
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Archduke Charles died in 1590 ; but till 1596 his widow Maria, Albert of Bavaria's sister, acted as regent for her son Ferdinand, while he was pursuing his studies with the Jesuits at Ingolstadt.
In 1598 Archduke Leopold, hitherto Coadjutor of Passau, succeeded (in the twelfth year of his age) as Bishop ; and Pope Clement VIII was able to withdraw from the diocese, which comprised the greater part of Austria, the concession of the Cup made by Pius IV a generation earlier.
As for Donauwörth, Maximilian retained it as a redeemable pledge; and in July, 1609, a provisional oath of homage to him was administered to the civic authorities.
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 Matthias (1557-1619)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Holy Roman emperor from 1612, who, in a reversal of the policy of his father, Maximilian II, sponsored a Catholic revival in the Habsburg domains that, despite his moderating influence, eventually led to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War.
This incapable and unreliable Habsburg ruler was invited by the Catholic nobility of the Spanish Netherlands to replace Don Juan of Austria as governor general (1577).
The archdukes decided that the archduke Ferdinand of Styria (the future emperor Ferdinand II) should succeed Matthias, who was old, ill, and childless, as emperor.
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 AllRefer.com - Maximilian, 1832–67, emperor of Mexico (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maximilian served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and was governor-general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857–59), but he found no outlet for his dreams of liberal reform.
Maximilian, who had no real understanding of Mexico, found most of the country hostile to him and loyal to Benito JuArez.
Maximilian, in desperation, assumed personal command of his forces, then mostly concentrated at QuerEtaro.
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 Arras, Treaty of on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1483 Mary's widower, Archduke Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I), reluctantly accepted the treaty.
Maximilian's infant daughter, Margaret of Austria, was to marry the dauphin (later King Charles VIII), bringing Artois and Franche-Comté as dowry.
Maximilian's infant son (later King Philip I of Castile) was to do homage for Flanders to France.
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 Maximilian I --  Encyclopædia Britannica
archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution.
The son of Maximilian I, a Holy Roman emperor, Philip I founded the Hapsburg Dynasty in Spain through his marriage to Joan, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Frederick's son Maximilian I, crowned emperor in 1493, married Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy and ruler of the Netherlands.
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 Maximilian Visit New Advent For The Summa Theologica, Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia And More. >   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(Victor Kovner) Maximilian Schell was born in Vienna, and raised in Switzerland, the son.
Maximilian Mary Kolbe (1894-1941) was born at Pabiance, in Russian Occupied Poland and agnostic of Jewish lineage, St. Maximilian was moved by divine grace to found a pious.
Maximilian was born Raymond Kolbe in Poland, January 8, 1894 Father Maximilian returned to Poland in 1919 and began spreading his Militia of the Immaculata movement.
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 Culture Tirol - Alle Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Emperor Maximilian I and Archduke Ferdinand II had the most important artists of their times create works for eternity in memory of themselves.
What Maximilian I and his great grandson Ferdinand II have in common is their endeavor to be remembered by future generations.
Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) followed Maximilian’s I example and completed his great-grandfather’s sarcophagus in the Imperial Church in Innsbruck.
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 Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico & Archduchess of Austria
Maximilian asked Leopold I for the hand of his daughter and, although Leopold I preferred Pedro V of Portugal as son-in-law, he allowed 16-year-old Charlotte to make her own choice.
When Maximilian decreed a guarantee of the freedom of religion, he antagonised the papal nuncio, too, and as a result the pope withdrew his support in the spring of 1865.
In her letter to Maximilian, Charlotte wrote that Napoleon III represented "the evil on earth" and that he was "possessed by the devil".
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 Maximilian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maximil'ian (1832-1867), archduke of Austria and emperor of Mexico.
Having become involved in financial and political difficulties, Maximilian, with the approval of Napoleon, resolved to abdicate, but he was induced by the Conservative party to remain.
The French army which had supported him withdrew, at the stern demand of the United States government, and after a brief period of fighting the emperor and two of his chief generals were captured and executed.
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 The Galileo Project
1623, appointed (by Archduke Charles) superior of the Jesuit college to be erected in Neisse.
Sol ellipticus (1615) and Refractiones caelestes (1617) are dedicated to Maximilian, Archduke of Tirol, who inited Scheiner to his court in 1616.
Another major patron was Archduke Charles, Bishop of Neisse, another brother of Ferdinand II, who took Scheiner with him to Neisse, but died on a trip to Spain in 1624.
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 Empire of Maximilian.History.Mexico for Kids
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Hapsburg was chosen to become emperor.
Maximilian was a cultured man of liberal ideas, a fact that made him lose the sympathy of the Catholic Church and the support of some conservatives.
With this triumph, and after having been attacked and threatened by the empire of Maximilian, the Republic was finally consolidated.
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 FERDINAND II. - LoveToKnow Article on FERDINAND II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The obstacles which impeded the progress of the scheme were gradually overcome by the energy of the archduke Maximilian.
To deal with the elector palatine and his allies the new emperor allied himself with Maximilian I., duke of Bavaria, and the Catholic League, who drove Frederick from Bohemia in 1620, while Ferdinands Spanish allies devastated the Palatinate.
Peace having been made with Bethlen Gabor in December 1621, the first period of the war ended in a satisfactory fashion for the emperor, and he could turn his attention to completing the work of crushing the Protestants, which had already begun in his archduchies and in Bohemia.
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 ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED 10/08/1593
In 1628, Maximilian was given the Rhenish Palatinate in return for Upper Austria, which he had been holding.
Later in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), Bavaria was ravaged by Swedish and French forces and Maximilian was forced to conclude the truce of Ulm and to renounce his alliance with the Emperor.
By the Peace of Westphalia (1648), Maximilian retained the electorate and the Upper Palatinate.
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 archduke --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The title of archduke Palatine (Pfalz-Erzherzog) was first assumed by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, on the strength of a forged privilege, in the hope of gaining for the dukes of Austria an equal status with the electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Austrian archduke, field marshal, army reformer, and military theoretician who was one of the few Allied commanders capable of defeating the French generals of the Napoleonic period.
Francis Ferdinand was born on Dec. 18, 1863, in Graz, Austria.
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 Maximilian Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Maximilian Affair (1864-1867) was the diplomatic crisis resulting from the French intervention in Mexico by Emperor Napoleon III, placing Austrian Archduke Maximilian on the throne of Mexico.
Despite this violation of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States could not respond militarily due to the ongoing Civil War.
Ultimately, the crisis was resolved when Benito Juárez deposed and executed Maximilian in 1867.
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 Archduke Ferdinand II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the Imperial Diet in Regensburg, the Archduke met Philippine Welser, the daughter of the Augsburg nobleman Franz Welser and the Duchess Anna Adlerin von Zinnenberg.
In 1563, at the State Parliament in Innsbruck, the Archduke was introduced by his father to the Tyrolean Diet as the new provincial sovereign of Tyrol.
Together with those of Emperor Rudolf II and the Elector August I of Saxony, the collection of Archduke Ferdinand II housed in the Arts and Treasure Chamber at Ambras Palace, rated as the most important of its kind.
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