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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.
		Philip II of Spain, son of Charles V, was ahead of him in the line of succession, but under a 1553 agreement Maximilian displaced Philip as heir to the Imperial throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximilian_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (394 words)

	Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II 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.
		If Leopold's reign as emperor and king of Hungary and Bohemia had been prolonged during years of peace, it is probable that he would have repeated his successes as a reforming ruler in Tuscany on a far larger scale.
		From the east he was threatened by the aggressive ambition of Catherine II of Russia and by the unscrupulous policy of Prussia.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Leopold_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (1603 words)

	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)

	Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his successor Matthias did not aggressively champion Catholicism since they were more interested in furthering the power and holdings of the Habsburgs.
		Frederick V was outlawed from the Holy Roman Empire and his territories, the Rhenish Palatinate, were given to Catholic nobles, while his title of elector of the Palatinate was given to his distant cousin Duke Maximilian of Bavaria.
		At the negotiations were Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Swiss, the Swedes, the Portuguese and representatives of the Pope.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Thirty_Years'_War (3732 words)

	Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1612-1619) was born in Vienna on February 24, 1557 and died in Vienna on March 20, 1619.
		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.
		After Matthias's accession as Holy Roman emperor, his policy was dominated by Klesl, who hoped to bring about a compromise between Catholic and Protestant states within the empire in order to strengthen it.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mathias,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (376 words)

	Rudolf II (1552-1612) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Holy Roman emperor from 1576 to 1612; his ill health and unpopularity prevented him from restraining the religious dissensions that eventually led to the Thirty Years' War (1618–48).
		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).
		The emperor's mental instability grew worse after 1598, and in 1605 the Habsburg archdukes, long dissatisfied with his political incompetence, compelled him to entrust the conduct of Hungarian affairs to his brother Matthias.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/EmperorRudlof-II/EmperorRudolf-II.html (245 words)

	The Hapsburg dynasty in the Czech lands and the Austrian Empire
		From Ferdinand I of Hapsburg and Rudolf II to Marie Therese and Josef II.
		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'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)

	Thirty Years War World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia issued a charter of religious freedom to Bohemian Protestants in 1609.
		Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, died without descendents in 1619, and his lands went to his nearest male relative, his cousin Ferdinand of Styria.
		Being without descendents, Emperor Mathias sought to assure an orderly transition during his lifetime by having his dynastic heir (that fiercely Catholic, Ferdinand of Styria, later Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor) elected to the separate royal thrones of Bohemia and Hungary.
	www.mirchigold.com /index.php?title=Thirty_Years_War (4112 words)

	Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor and German king. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1194–1250, Holy Roman emperor (1220–50) and German king (1212–20), king of Sicily (1197–1250), and king of Jerusalem (1229–50), son of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI and of Constance, heiress of Sicily.
		While emperor and pope were thus at swords’ points, Europe was threatened (1241) by a Mongol invasion under Batu Khan.
		Frederick II was one of the most arresting figures of the Middle Ages.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/Fred2HRE.html (1213 words)

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		Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was a staunch Catholic who had been educated by the Jesuits and who wanted to restore Catholicism.
		Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Swiss, the Swedes, the Portuguese and representatives of the Pope.
		The Palatinates (Pfalzgraviates of the Rhein) was divided between the re-established Elector Palatine Charles Louis (son and heir of Frederick V) and Elector-Duke Maximilian of Bavaria (thus it was split between the Protestants and the Catholics).
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Thirty_Years'_War (3471 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Rudolf II (Holy Roman Empire)
		Rudolf II (Holy Roman Empire) (1552-1612), Holy Roman emperor (1576-1612), king of Hungary (1572-1608), and king of Bohemia (1575-1611), born in...
		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...
		His successor, Otto III, was moved by his father’s ambition and the lineage of his mother, the Byzantine princess Theophano, to assume even grander...
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	Thirty Years' War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Ferdinand II sent two Catholic councillors (Martinitz and Slavata) as his representatives to Hradcany castle in Prague in May 1618 to make way for his arrival and kingship, the Bohemian Calvinists seized them and threw them out of a palace window.
		Period: 1636-1648 France, though a largely Catholic country, was a rival of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, and now entered the war on the Protestant side.
		In 1645, the Swedish marshal Lennart Torstensson defeated the Imperial army at the Battle of Jankau near Prague, and Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Bavarian army in the Second Battle of Nördlingen.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Thirty-Years'-War.htm (3738 words)

	List of Hungarian rulers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the death of his husband Zápolya János the areas was mainly controlled by nobles (with the lead of), until the nobles recalled her with her child (II Zápolya Zsigmond) as Queen.
		Hungary was effectively split into 3 parts: a Habsburg domain in the north and west, Ottoman domain in the center, and the Ottoman satellite Transylvania in the east after 1562.
		Abdicated three times, twice (1597, 1602), in favor of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II and once (1599) of his cousin Andrew Cardinal Báthory.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/List_of_Hungarian_rulers (590 words)

	A Place in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tycho Brahe, the imperial mathematician and court astronomer of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
		1625 Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire is victorious in wars against the Protestants in Germany.
		Ludwig II of Bavaria is declared insane and dies.
	checkel.netfirms.com /colibri/hgene/library/timeline.htm (9037 words)

	1576 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		November 2 - Rudolf II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
		The city Fredrikstad of Norway founded by king Frederick II of Denmark and Norway.
		October 12 - Emperor Maximilian II (born 1527)
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1576 (388 words)

	1612 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
		Trial of the witches in Pendle, Lancashire is held.
		January 20 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1612 (265 words)

	Archduke_Ernest_of_Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Archduke Ernest of Austria (born July 15, 1553 in Vienna, died February 12, 1595 in Brussels) was a son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.
		He was educated with his brother Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the court of Spain.
		In 1590, he became governor of Inner Austria, and from 1594 in the Spanish Netherlands.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Archduke_Ernest_of_Austria (85 words)

	1525 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		May 15 - - Defeat of the rebellious peasants of the Holy Roman Empire by the Lords.
		October 1 - Tadeás Hájek, physician to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1600)
		Huayna Capac, emperor of the Inca (born 1493)
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1525 (424 words)

	Rudolf II -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		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-9064360?tocId=9064360 (535 words)

	Maximilian II, 1527-76, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		However, Maximilian yielded and in 1562 swore to remain a Catholic and to allow his immediate heirs to be educated in Spain.
		He thereupon was elected king of the Romans, or Holy Roman emperor-elect (1562), and king of Hungary (1563).
		He obtained funds from the diet for the defense of Austria against the Turks but did not press his advantage, and by the truce of 1568 with Selim II he agreed to continue paying tribute to the sultan for his part of Hungary.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Maxi2HRE.html (222 words)

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		Habsburg, Albert II the Lame of Austria, Duke of Austria
		Habsburg, Maximilian I of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor
		Habsburg, Rudolf II of Austria, Duke of Austria
	worldroots.com /brigitte/habsburg.htm (286 words)

	Side Salad - Food For Lack Of Thought: A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
		In 1327, King Edward II of England was forced to abdicate by powerful barons in favor of his son Edward III.
		In 1612, Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor from 1576, died.
		Suffering from depression, he was unable to reconcile Roman Catholic and Protestant factions which eventually led to the Thirty Years War.
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	Highlights of the Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, may have commissioned the chest, which later belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden.
		His reputation earned him commissions from the most powerful and prominent patrons of Europe, including frequent commissions from four successive Holy Roman Emperors: Charles V (1500-1558), Ferdinand I (1503-1564), Maximilian II (1527-1576), and Rudolf II (1552-1612).
		The theme of the Olympian gods, as well as the sumptuous materials of the chest, would have appealed to a royal patron, such as one of the emperors for whom Jamnitzer worked.
	darcy.luc.edu /highlights/walter.shtml (445 words)

	Il Cardinale Restaurant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		- Vratislav II becomes the first Czech king in 1085 but remains subordinate to the Holy Roman Empire and the German king.
		- Charles IV elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1355; Prague becomes the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
		- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, is crowned the Czech king in 1575 and moves his court back to Prague in 1583.
	www.ilcardinale.com /inglese/citta.htm (799 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II Rudolf II Habsburg was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary.
		Seeking to gain the support of the Bohemian estates, Rudolf issued a royal charter in 1609 that guaranteed religious freedom to the nobles and cities.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (335 words)

	1576 Information - TextSheet.com
		End of the Fifth War of Religion Once again, the Protestants are granted freedom of worship.
		November 8 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unit to oppose Spanish occupation.
		Beginning of the Seventh War of Religion in France.
	www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/1/15/1576.html (167 words)

	Rudolf_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rudolph II's personal crown, later Crown of the Austrian Empire
		Rudolf II Habsburg was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, king of Bohemia, and king of Hungary.
		(HRR) et:Rudolf II (Saksa-Rooma keiser) fr:Rodolphe II du Saint-Empire he:רודולף השני, קיסר האימפריה הרומית הקדושה ja:ルドルフ2世 (神聖ローマ皇帝) pl:Rudolf II sv:Rudolf II, tysk-romersk kejsare
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