When Charles V came to power he ruled over the original Habsburg hereditary territories (1519-1521) until 1521 when he passed the rule to his brother Ferdinand I in order to rule the
now enormous Habsburg Empire.
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When Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor came to power he ruled over a massive empire that included: Spain and her New World holdings, as well as, the Low Countries. In 1521 Charles passed
on the original Habsburg hereditary territories that included Austria to his brother Ferdinand I (1521-1564). Charles was pressured by France and the rest of Christendom to limit the size of his empire as it posed a threat to his neighbors.
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Also the emergence of Protestantism which had come in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his ninety-five point theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, presented opposition to the traditional Catholic world view of the Holy Roman Empire and posed another reason to for Christendom to desire to desire that the Charles Empire be limited.
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In the year 1526 the Battle of Mohacs was fought against the Ottoman Empire who Austria defeated allowing Ferdinand I expanded his holdings by assuming rule of Bohemia and Hungary
which were united with Austria. The Austro-Turkish War that began in 1526 would include an unsuccessful siege of Vienna in 1529 and last until 1552.
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From 1521 Protest pamphlets were printed in Austria, unsuccessful attempts were made to ban these publications. Among the peasant population Anabaptist, who rebaptized converts who
had already been baptized as infants, were more popular among the peasant population than Lutherans. In 1581 Balthasar Hubmaier, the leader of the Anabaptist in the Danube counties and southern Moravia was burned at the stake in Vienna. Another Anabaptist leader Tirolean Jokob Hutter was burned at the stake in 1536 in Innsbruck.
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Maximilian II: 1564-1576 (1 minute)
Charles V abdicated in 1556 after ending a long conflict with the Schmalkadic League of Lutheran German Princes. This conflict was settled in 1555 by the Peace of Augsburg which
established the principle Cuius regio, eius religio, Translated from Latin as “Whose realm, his religion”, meaning whichever
religion an individual ruler selected this also became the religion of his realm.
In 1558 Ferdinand I became Holy Roman Emperor the Habsburg Empire was now being ruled from the Austrian (German) line of the House of Habsburg. Ferdinand I passed on Bohemia, Hungary
and Austria to his son Maximilian II (1564-1576); Charles, the youngest of his brothers received the inner Austrian land and took his residence in Graz.
Maximilian II had protestant leanings but he had promised his father he would remain Catholic. The Jesuits in Vienna, Graz and Innsbruck started to take counterreformation actions.
Official religious commissions started to replace Protestant preachers with Catholic priest.
