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Facts

Born July 9, 1578 • Graz • Austria
Died February 15, 1637 (aged 58) • Vienna • Austria
Title / Office king (1620-1627), Bohemia • emperor (1619-1637), Holy Roman Empire • king (1618-1625), Hungary • king (1617-1619), Bohemia
House / Dynasty House of Habsburg
Notable Family Members son Ferdinand III
Role In Counter-Reformation • Thirty Years’ War
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa
Holy Roman empress
Ferdinand III, detail from a portrait from the studio of Peter Paul Rubens; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Ferdinand III
Holy Roman emperor
Matthias, print
Matthias
Holy Roman emperor
Mercy, Franz, Freiherr von
Franz, baron von Mercy
Austrian field marshal
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Melchior Klesl
Austrian cardinal
Gallas, detail from an engraving
Matthias Gallas, count von Campo
Austrian general
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Ulrich II von Cilli
Austrian prince
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Bohemian military commander
Charles IV
Charles IV
Holy Roman emperor
Ferdinand I
Ferdinand I
Holy Roman emperor
Sigismund
Sigismund
Holy Roman emperor
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Gábor Bethlen
Gábor Bethlen
king of Hungary
Wenceslas
Wenceslas
king of Bohemia and Germany
Montecuccoli, portrait by an unknown artist, 1670; in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
Raimondo Montecuccoli
Austrian field marshal
Piccolomini-Pieri, Ottavio, duca d'Amalfi
Ottavio Piccolomini-Pieri, duca d’Amalfi
Austrian general
Frederick V, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1620; in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Ger.
Frederick V
elector Palatine of the Rhine
Pappenheim, Gottfried Heinrich, count zu
Gottfried Heinrich, count zu Pappenheim
German officer
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Louis II
king of Hungary and Bohemia
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Vladislas II
king of Bohemia and Hungary

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