Tag: Holy Roman Emperor
The Early Babenbergs (2 minutes) The first Babenberg Margrave was Leopold I (976-994) who extended the eastern frontier to the Vienna Woods after defeating the Magyars of Hungary. The …
During the war Ferdinand II organized a series of forced conversions that successfully re-Catholicized the population of the Austrian hereditary lands. However, Hungary remained Protestant. The wars ravaged and …
Protestantism spread throughout Austria, Bohemia and Hungary while the Habsburg monarchs remained Catholic. Maximilian II asserted that he was neither Catholic nor Protestant but Christian and he rejected aggressive …