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HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Maximilian II Emperor Of The
Male 1527 - 1576


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  • Birth  31 Jul 1527  , Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  12 Oct 1576  , Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried  Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • A Hapsburg ruler who failed

      EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN II
      By Paula Sutter Fichtner
      Yale University Press, $30, 344 pages, illus.
      REVIEWED BY BRIDGET HEAL

      "By virtually all standards, including his own, Emperor Maximilian II (1527-1576) was a failure." So begins Paula Sutter Fichtner's account of the life and times of one of 16th-century Europe's least effective rulers.

      As a Hapsburg, Maximilian was a member of one of Europe's leading dynasties. His uncle, Charles V, had built up a massive empire, uniting the Netherlands, Spain, the New World, Naples, Sicily and Germany under his leadership. Charles' son, Philip, inherited the Spanish part of this empire and the Netherlands, while Germany passed to Charles' brother, Ferdinand, and thence, in 1562, to Ferdinand's son, Maximilian.

      Charles V and Philip II are two of the great figures of European history and have been the subjects of numerous studies, but "Emperor Maximillian II" is the first full biography of Maximilian II in English. Perhaps not surprisingly, previous scholars have been deterred by Maximilian's inadequacies — his inability to achieve any of his stated aims and his failure to make any lasting impression on Europe's political and religious landscape. As the author points out, however, history is not just about great achievements. It is about the totality of past experience, in which failure and defeat have inevitably played a central role.
    Person ID  I312  Royal Family of Europe
    Last Modified  7 Oct 2001 

    Father  HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Ferdinand I Emperor Of The,   b. 10 Mar 1503, , Alcala De Henares, Madrid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jul 1564, , Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  BOHEMIA AND HUNGARY Anna Princess Of,   b. 23 Jul 1503, , Praha, Praha, Czechoslovakia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jan 1547, , Praha, Praha, Czechoslovakia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  1521  Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F105  Group Sheet

    Family  AUSTRIA Marie Archduchess Of,   b. 21 Jun 1528, , Madrid, Madrid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1603, Couvent St. Clara, Villa Monte, , Spain Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  1548  Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. AUSTRIA Anna Marie Archduchess Of,   b. 2 Nov 1549, , Cigales, Valladolid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 1580, , Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. AUSTRIA Ferdinand, Archduke Of,   b. 28 Mar 1551, Of, Cigales, Valladolid, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jun 1552
     3. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Rudolf II Emperor Of The,   b. 1552, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1612
     4. AUSTRIA Ernst, Archduke Of,   b. 15 Jun 1553, Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Feb 1595
     5. AUSTRIA Elisabeth, Archduchess Of,   b. 5 Jun 1554, Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1592, Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. AUSTRIA Marie, Archduchess Of,   b. 27 Jul 1555, Of Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jun 1556
     7. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Matthias Emperor Of The,   b. 24 Feb 1557, , Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Mar 1619, Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. AUSTRIA Son, Archduke Of,   b. 20 Oct 1557, Of Wien, Wien, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. AUSTRIA Maximilian, Archduke Of,   b. 12 Oct 1558, Wiener-Neustadt, Niederhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Nov 1618
     10. AUSTRIA Albrecht Ernst, Archduke Of,   b. 13 Nov 1559, Wiener-Neustadt, Niederhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jul 1621, Bruxelles, Brabant, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location
     11. AUSTRIA Wenzel, Archduke Of,   b. 9 Mar 1561, Wiener-Neustadt, Niederhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1578
     12. AUSTRIA Friedrich, Archduke Of,   b. 21 Jun 1562, Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1563
     13. AUSTRIA Marie, Archduchess Of,   b. 19 Feb 1564, Of, Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1564
     14. AUSTRIA Karl, Archduke Of,   b. 26 Sep 1565, Of, Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 May 1566
     15. AUSTRIA Margarethe, Archduchess Of,   b. 25 Jan 1567, Of, Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1633
     16. AUSTRIA Eleonore, Archduchess Of,   b. 4 Nov 1568, Of, Linz, Oberhosterreich, Austria Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Mar 1580
    Family ID  F152  Group Sheet



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