Maximilian II Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...year, and in 1568 Maximilian agreed to a truce which obliged him to pay tribute for Hungary to the Ottoman Sultan Selim II . In 1568 Don Carlos , the heir to the Spanish throne, died while under house arrest, so opening the way for Maximilian (or one of his sons) to succeed his cousin Philip II as king of Spain. This possibility, which was never to be realized, led Maximilian in 1570 to forge a marital alliance by which his daughter Anna became the fourth wife of King Philip . In the final years of his reign Maximilian's principal concern was...
Maximilian II (1527–1576) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...wishes to see his son Rudolf recognized as his successor in Bohemia forced Maximilian in 1575 to assent verbally to the Bohemian Confession. This act effectively granted religious freedom to a coalition of Utraquists, Lutherans, and the Bohemian Brethren. Religiously isolated within his family—his pious wife, Maria, was Philip II's sister—he refused the last rites of the church, leaving contemporaries and historians alike unsure of his true beliefs. Bibl, Viktor . Maximilian II: Der rätselhafte Kaiser . Dresden, 1929. Though this book has no scholarly...
Maximilian II, Kaiser (1527–76) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
... II, Kaiser (Vienna, 1527–76 , Regensburg), son of Ferdinand I , was brought up in Spain, and from 1548 to 1550 was the deputy there of his uncle, the Emperor Karl V. Despite his Catholic upbringing, Maximilian maintained cordial relations with Protestant princes, and was believed by some to be a secret sympathizer with the Protestant cause. It is now thought that he may rather have been a Christian humanist of the Erasmian tradition with little interest in the dogmas of either faction. In 1562 he was elected German King, and in 1564 he...
Maximilian II, König von Bayern (1811–64) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
... II, König von Bayern (Munich, 1811–64 , Munich), son of Ludwig I , succeeded to the throne in 1848 on his father's abdication. He devoted himself principally to encouraging the arts and sciences in Munich. He was succeeded by his son Ludwig II...
Maximilian II, Emanuel, Kurfürst von Bayern (1662–1726) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
... II, Emanuel, Kurfürst von Bayern (Munich, 1662–1726 , Munich), was a son of the Elector Ferdinand Maria (ruled from 1651 ), whom he succeeded in 1679 . During a term as Statthalter of the Netherlands, an appointment made by Leopold I in 1691 , ambition to annex this province led him to fight in the Spanish War of Succession on the side of France against Austria. Defeats in the battles of Donauwörth ( July 1704 ) and Höchstädt ( August 1704 ), known in England as Blenheim, forced him to flee from Bavaria. By the Peace of Rastatt ( 1714 ) he was...
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