Frederick III was Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until his death in 1493. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the pope,and the last to be crowned in Rome. He was the first emperor from the House of Habsburg,which was to retain the title until it disappeared centuries later.
The House of Habsburg,also known as the House of Austria,was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.
The House of Wittelsbach is a former Bavarian dynasty,with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria,the Electoral Palatinate,the Electorate of Cologne,Holland,Zeeland,Sweden,Denmark,Norway,Hungary,Bohemia,and Greece. Their ancestral lands of Bavaria and the Palatinate were prince-electorates,and the family had three of its members elected emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire. They ruled over the Kingdom of Bavaria which was created in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918.
Maximilian I was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope,as the journey to Rome was blocked by the Venetians. He proclaimed himself elected emperor in 1508 at Trent,thus breaking the long tradition of requiring a papal coronation for the adoption of the Imperial title. Maximilian was the only surviving son of Frederick III,Holy Roman Emperor,and Eleanor of Portugal. Since his coronation as King of the Romans in 1486,he ran a double government,or Doppelregierung,with his father until Frederick's death in 1493.
Maximilian II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death in 1576. A member of the Austrian House of Habsburg,he was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elected King of Germany on 24 November 1562. On 8 September 1563,he was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia in the Hungarian capital Pressburg. On 25 July 1564,he succeeded his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor.
Maximilian II,also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel,was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier,his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements.
Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556,King of Bohemia,Hungary,and Croatia from 1526,and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Before his accession as emperor,he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother,Charles V,Holy Roman Emperor. Also,he often served as Charles' representative in the Holy Roman Empire and developed encouraging relationships with German princes. In addition,Ferdinand also developed valuable relationships with the German banking house of Jakob Fugger and the Catalan bank,Banca Palenzuela Levi Kahana.
Maximilian Schell was a Swiss actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg,his second acting role in Hollywood. Born in Austria,his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by performance and literature. While he was still a child,his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany,and they settled in Zürich. After World War II ended,Schell took up acting and directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films,often anti-war,before moving to Hollywood.
Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Mexican Republic on 19 June 1867.
Maximilian I Joseph was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799,prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1806,then King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken,a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
Archduke was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria,and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within the former Holy Roman Empire (962–1806),which was below that of Emperor,and roughly equal to King,Prince-Archbishop,and Grand prince,but above that of a Grand Duke,Sovereign Prince,and Duke.
Maximilian III of Austria,was a member of the House of Habsburg and the Archduke of Further Austria from 1612 until his death. He was also briefly known as Maximilian of Poland during his claim for the Polish throne. He would try to be elected as King of Poland he was defeated. He was also Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Maximilian III Joseph,also known by his epithet "the much beloved" was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777. He was the last of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach and because of his death,the War of Bavarian Succession broke out.
The Kingdom of Bavaria was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871,the kingdom became a federated state of the new empire and was second in size,power,and wealth only to the leading state,the Kingdom of Prussia.
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx,known as Ernst von Lasaulx was a German philologist and politician.
Kunigunde of Austria,a member of the House of Habsburg,was Duchess of Bavaria from 1487 to 1508,by her marriage to the Wittelsbach duke Albert IV.
The (Princely) County of Tyrol was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253,it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg. In 1804,the County of Tyrol,unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen,became a crown land of the Austrian Empire. From 1867,it was a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary.
The Electorate of Bavaria was a quasi-independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806,when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Kurt Linder was a German professional football manager and player. He played for Young Boys,Rapid Wien,Rot-Weiss Essen and Lyon,among other teams.
Archduke Maximilian of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the younger brother of the Emperor Charles I of Austria.
