Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Noble person
1459 – 1519
Who was Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?
Maximilian I, the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky. He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483. He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, but he also lost the Austrian territories in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy.
Through marriage of his son Philip the Handsome to eventual queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian helped to establish the Habsburg dynasty in Spain which allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making Charles V the first de jure King of Spain. Since his father Philip died in 1506, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.
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- Born
- Mar 22, 1459
Wiener Neustadt - Also known as
- Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Bianca Maria Sforza
(1494/03/16 - 1510/12/31) - Anne of Brittany
(1490/12/19 - 1491) - Mary of Burgundy
(1477/08/18 - 1482)
- Bianca Maria Sforza
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 12, 1519
Wels - Resting place
- St. George's Cathedral
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on July 23, 2013
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