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	Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rudolf II von Habsburg was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary.
		Although Rudolf was a learned man, he was incapable of ruling because he was plagued by melancholy and later became subject to occasional fits of insanity.
		Rudolf II was one of the most eccentric European monarchs of that or any other period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (368 words)

	Rudolf II on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Following a revolt in Hungary (1604-6) by Stephen Bocskay and his Ottoman allies, most of the actual ruling power passed to Rudolf's brother Matthias ; the revolt was provoked by Rudolf's attempt to impose Roman Catholicism in Hungary.
		Rudolf's turbulent reign was a prelude to the Thirty Years War.
		Jean Paul II et le président slovaque Rudolf Schuster Le pape a appelé jeudi la Slovaquie à nourrir de sa tradition chréti.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Rudolf2.asp (542 words)

	Rudolf II and his Artists
		Rudolf II is known as an exceptional patron of the arts, a monarch who succumbed to a collector's passion and who succeeded during his era in creating the largest kunstkammer in Europe.
		Rudolf II employed the goldsmith Jacop Strada as antiquary, who had also worked at the court during the time of Rudolf's father Maximilian II, and later the artist and miniaturist Daniel Froschl who is supposed to have been the first artist to compile an inventory of the collections.
		He was honoured with noble status in 1595 by Rudolf II and, in 1609, the emperor conferred on him the privilege of bearing the title of decorative glass engraver.
	www.vol.cz /RUDOLFII/umelcien.html (1686 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Rudolf II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rudolf II (1552-1612), Holy Roman emperor (1576-1612), King of Hungary (1572-1608), and King of Bohemia (1575-1611), born in Vienna, the son and...
		Rudolf I of Habsburg (1218-1291), German king and Holy Roman emperor (1273-1291); the first Habsburg to hold the royal title, he is considered the...
		Henry II (Holy Roman Empire), called Henry The Saint (973-1024), German king and Holy Roman Emperor (1002-1024), last of the Saxon rulers, born in...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Rudolf_II.html (115 words)

	Voynich MS - Biographies
		Rudolf II was born in Vienna on 18 Juli 1552 as the son of Maximilian II and Maria, daughter of emperor Charles V. At the age of 11 he moved to the court of his uncle, King Philip II.
		In 1572 Rudolf became the King of Hungary and in 1576 he was crowned king of Bohemia in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
		Rudolf was especially favourably disposed to him: Busbecq's letters to Prague from 1582 to 1586 demonstrate their close contact, as well as being full of valuable information on the French scene...
	www.voynich.nu /curricula.html (9337 words)

	The Hapsburg dynasty in the Czech lands and the Austrian Empire
		Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, was crowned the Czech king in 1576 and moved his court back to Prague in 1583, thus promoting Prague to the imperial seat of power again.
		Rudolf was obsessed with art and science, not spending much time on his royal duties, and made Prague the center of science and alchemy.
		Rudolf's successor Matthias attempted to deprive the Protestants of the few freedoms they were left with since the Hapsburgs took the throne, and this oppression resulted in another Protestant uprising.
	www.myczechrepublic.com /czech-history/hapsburg-joseph.html (670 words)

	Rudolf Photography [English] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rudolf is a professional photographer specialising in food, aerial and advertising photography, with more then 30 years of experience.
		Rudolf is considered as one of South Americas most experienced photographers in his field.
		Rudolf holds a large collection of stock photos of Colombia including hundreds of aerial photographs of major landmarks, geographical features and towns.
	www.rudolf.com /index2.html (152 words)

	Prague during the Rule of Rudolph II (1583-1612 A.D.) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rudolf II, son of Maximilian II, was named Holy Roman Emperor in 1576, and returned the court to Prague in 1583, after its temporary relocation to Vienna.
		The emperor's ambitions as an architectural patron are evidenced by his redesign and expansion of the castle, the construction of a new town hall and archbishop's palace, and the commissioning of several new churches.
		In addition to stimulating culture in Prague through enlightened patronage and collecting, Rudolf II offered direct support of the arts, visiting his artists in their workshops and raising the status of the local painters' guild from the level of a craft to that of a liberal art.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/rupr/hd_rupr.htm (669 words)

	His Dark Materials \| The Alethiometer \| History of the Alethiometer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first alethiometer was constructed in Prague during the reign of Rudolf II by a scholar named Pavel Khunrath.
		Prague, under Emperor Rudolf II, was a hotbed of alchemy, and Khunrath himself had made experiments, discovering in the process an alloy of two rare metals that had mysterious quasi-magnetic properties - that is, it responded like the needle of a compass.
		He wrote down the first few dozen meanings, but got no further, for in 1612 Emperor Rudolf II died, and the new emperor, Frederick, was a fanatical opponent of this kind of occult philosophy.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/pullman/alethiometer/history.html (356 words)

	TABLE OF CONTENTS
		Rudolf renounces to Matthias Hungary, Austria and Moravia.
		Rudolf had at last found an occasion on which he led the party of progress ; but the age was too full of religious polemics for any Protestant to raise his voice in favour of the change, except the mathematician Kepler of Graz.
		Nothing came of Rudolf IPs provisional investiture of Christian II with the duchies during his drunken sojourn at Prague (July); though by the Treaty of Juterbok (March, 1611) the Saxon Elector was nominally admitted to a share in the government.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh321.html (16236 words)

	RUDOLPH II. - LoveToKnow Article on RUDOLPH II. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1572 he was crowned king of Hungary, three years later king of Bohemia; and in October 1575 he was chosen king of the Romans, or German king, at Regensburg, becoming emperor on his father's death in October 1576.
		Political as well as religious privileges were attacked; the administration was conducted by Germans; and the result was a considerable amount of discontent which became very pronounced about the opening of the 17th century.
		His education at the Spanish court and an hereditary tendency to insanity, however, made him haughty, suspicious %and consequently very unpopular, while even in his best days the temper of his mind was that of a recluse rather than of a ruler.
	87.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUDOLPH_II_.htm (1528 words)

	Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1612-1619) was born in Vienna on February 24, 1557 and died in Vienna on March 20, 1619.
		He was appointed governor of Austria (1593) by his brother, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
		In the same year Matthias was recognized as head of the house of Hapsburg and as future Holy Roman emperor, as a result of Rudolf's illness.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mathias,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (376 words)

	Aegidius Sadeler after Hans von Aachen: Portrait of Rudolph II (51.501.6469) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This allegorical bust-length portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II was engraved by Aegidius Sadeler after a painting by Hans von Aachen.
		Bracketing the portrait are personifications of Rudolf's enlightened reign.
		Sadeler, who worked successively as imperial engraver for Rudolf II, Matthias, and Ferdinand II, was awarded a license to publish his prints in 1601, prompting the increased circulation of glorifying portraits like this one.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/rupr/hod_51.501.6469.htm (266 words)

	Biography of Emperor Rudolf II of Austria (1552-1612) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Biography of Emperor Rudolf II of Austria (1552-1612)
		Rudolf II of Austria gathered astronomers, humanists, physicians, artist, craftsmen and antiquarians about him.
		Since his return from Spain, however, Rudolf suffered from dark moods.
	www.xs4all.nl /~kvenjb/madmonarchs/rudolf2/rudolf2_bio.htm (44 words)

	Giuseppe Arcimboldo
		Most of these paintings were created at the court of Rudolf II, who hired Arcimboldo as his court painter, placing him at the centre of Rudolf's eccentric menagerie of artists, scientists and charlatans.
		In 1562 he traveled across the Alps to Vienna to become the portraitist and copyist to the Hapsburg court, at the invitation of Emperor Maximilian II (his talent having been noted by Maximilian's father Ferdinand I, who employed him as a painter of conventional portraits).
		In 1591 he produced his masterpiece, Vertumnus, an allegorical portrait of his master Rudolf II as the Roman god of metamorphoses in nature and life, with Rudolf's face made up of fruit and flowers, symbolising the perfect balance between nature and harmony that his reign allegedly represented.
	www.nathankramer.com /cookbook/arcimboldo.htm (308 words)

	Rudolf II (d. 937) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		King of Burgundy (912–937) who ruled Italy for nearly four years (923–926) during the chaotic period at the end of the Carolingian era.
		912), founder of the kingdom of Jurane (Upper) Burgundy (i.e., the part of Burgundy north of Provence), and a descendant of the Welf (Guelf) family, Rudolf II.
		Rudolf, recognizing the weakness of his position, returned to Burgundy, and Hugh became king of Italy.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Rudolf-IIBurgundy/Rudolf-IIBurgundy.html (184 words)

	HRE coins
		Roberts 1891 cites this as Rudolf II but it is cross referenced to PdA image 112.12, which is his 5017, or Rudolf III.
		Rudolf did this since he had no children of his own and Henry was his nephew.
		Rudolf passed Burgundy on to Conrad II on his death in 1032, by passing another potential heir.
	home.eckerd.edu /~oberhot/feud-hre.htm (1212 words)

	Rudolf II -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The son of Rudolf I, founder of the kingdom of Jurane (Upper) Burgundy (i.e., the part of Burgundy north of Provence), and a descendant of the Welf (Guelf) family, Rudolf II was offered the throne of Italy by Italian nobles disaffected with their king, Berengar…
		The U.S. lyric writer, musical comedy author, and theatrical producer Oscar Hammerstein II was influential in the development of musical comedy and was known especially for his immensely successful collaboration with the composer Richard Rodgers.
		King Philip II was one of the most important figures in world history.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064354?tocId=9064354 (603 words)

	Rudolf II (1552-1612) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The eldest surviving son of the emperor Maximilian II and Maria, who was the daughter of the emperor Charles V, Rudolf was crowned king of Hungary in 1572 (as Rudolf) and of Bohemia in 1575 (as Rudolf II).
		In Austria Rudolf reversed Maximilian II's tolerant religious policy and sought to limit the political privileges of the Protestant Estates (the nobles and representatives of the towns).
		Two years later Rudolf was forced to cede Hungary, Austria, and Moravia to Matthias and to promise him the succession in Bohemia.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/EmperorRudlof-II/EmperorRudolf-II.html (245 words)

	Royalty.nu - The Habsburgs
		An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II by Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg.
		The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II by Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann.
		Joseph II: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780 by Derek Edward Dawson Beales.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Austria/Habsburgs.html (1311 words)

	Terebi II: Dr. Rudolf
		I spoke with Dr. John Rudolf today, and a nicer man you never spoke with.
		No apparent risk due to my behavioral experiences (no fainting, dizzy spells or the like), but I'm supposed to carry a baseline EKG with me so that should I ever find myself in an emergency room for whatever reason, the physicians know not to give me certain kinds of meds.
		The longer story: He consulted with Dr. Selby's PA (physician assistant) and they decided I should see Dr. Rudolf for a direct examination to make sure there are no other issues.
	www.rdrop.com /users/wakefiel/movabletype/terebi2.3/archives/2000/10/dr_rudolf.html (207 words)

	Rocky Road: Bocskay and Hoefnagel
		By the time Hoefnagel began illuminating the calligraphy book, Ferdinand's son Maximilian II and grandson Rudolf II had made their court in Prague one of the principal centers of 16th-century botany.
		In addition to his gardens, Rudolf II also assembled a vast collection of fossils, bones, minerals, and scientific instruments.
		(Rudolf II was famous throughout Europe for his impressive collections, and almost as famous for his persistent melancholy.) Drawing primarily from the gardens of Rudolf II, Hoefnagel decorated the calligraphy manuscript with flora and fauna, both real and fanciful.
	www.strangescience.net /bockhoef.htm (321 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Gisela of Burgundy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before he was deposed (985) and died young, (995) they had many children, whom they provided suitable places among the ruling classes of Europe: Henry II of Germany; Giselle of Bavaria, married Stephen of Hungary; Bruno, Bishop of Augsburg; Brigitta, probably an abbess; and Arnold, appointed Archbishop of Ravenna.
		Gisela married Henry II the Wrangler of Bavaria, son of Henry I the Quarrelsome of Bavaria and Judith of Bavaria, before 972.
		(Henry II the Wrangler of Bavaria was born in 951 and died on 28 Aug 995.)
	nygaard.howards.net /files/4310.htm (166 words)

	AllRefer.com - Rudolf II (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Rudolf II (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Rudolf II 1552–1612, Holy Roman emperor (1576–1612), king of Bohemia (1575–1611) and of Hungary (1572–1608), son and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II.
		Following a revolt in Hungary (1604–6) by Stephen Bocskay and his Ottoman allies, most of the actual ruling power passed to Rudolf's brother Matthias; the revolt was provoked by Rudolf's attempt to impose Roman Catholicism in Hungary.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rudolf2.html (295 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History Biographies : Albrecht Wenzel von Wallenstein (1583 - 1634)
		He distinguished himself as a soldier during the Bohemian Rebellion (1618-1623) and was quickly promoted through the ranks, first by Rudolf II and later by his successor, Ferdinand II.
		Ferdinand II was wary of Wallenstein's ambition and, in 1630, he dismissed him as commander of his armies.
		The Swedish king, Gustavus II and his Protestant army had invaded Germany two years earlier and were still within the borders of the empire.
	www.saburchill.com /history/biblio/018.html (436 words)

	Adriaen de Vries (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		De Vries' association with Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose rare works of art were the greatest collection of the age, began in 1593.
		Among de Vries' works for the reclusive monarch was a bronze relief representing Rudolf II's 1585 imperial decree that painting should be considered among the liberal arts.
		The idea that visual artists should be raised above the level of craftsmen developed during the Italian Renaissance, but Rudolf II made it official.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a379-1.html (196 words)

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