• The imperial election of 1619 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Frankfurt on August 28. This...
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    later. Having refused to become a candidate for the imperial throne in the 1619 imperial election, Maximilian was faced with the complications arising...
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    Bohemian Revolt (category Conflicts in 1619)
    result, Ferdinand had no difficulty in securing election as Holy Roman Emperor at the 1619 imperial election, which greatly strengthened his hand. Even James...
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  • The imperial election of 1653 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Augsburg on May 31. This was...
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  • The following is a list of imperial elections in the Holy Roman Empire. Entries in italics are for elections where the claim of the man elected to be...
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    Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria as an opponent to Ferdinand II at the 1619 imperial election. After Frederick was elected king of Bohemia, Camerarius followed...
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  • The imperial election of 1636 was an imperial election held to select the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It took place in Regensburg on December 22...
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    Frederick V of the Palatinate (category Imperial vicars)
    Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign...
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    Matthias died in March 1619, since many believed the loss of his authority and influence had fatally damaged the Habsburgs. By mid-June 1619, the Bohemian army...
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    House in 1556 by ceding Austria along with the Imperial crown to Ferdinand (as decided at the Imperial election, 1531), and the Spanish Empire to his son Philip...
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    Google Books PT196. Bassett, Richard. For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (2016). Evans, R. J. W. (2006). Austria, Hungary, and the...
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    John George I, Elector of Saxony (category Imperial vicars)
    George was easily induced to vote for the election of Archduke Ferdinand of Styria, as emperor in August 1619, an action which nullified the anticipated...
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    1637) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria...
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    assemble for a new imperial election. During that time, imperial institutions still required oversight. This was performed by two imperial vicars. Each vicar...
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    Ferdinand II (r. 1619–1637), who sought to combine universal jurisdiction with actual universal temporal rule and universal imperial authority, represented...
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    Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (category Imperial Army personnel of the Thirty Years' War)
    Budweis in January 1614. Shortly after his election, Emperor Matthias invited Bucquoy to take charge the Imperial Army and he accepted the post in August...
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    Franz Joseph I of Austria (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
    Franz Joseph was consistently built up as a potential successor to the imperial throne by his politically ambitious mother from early childhood. Up to...
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    stages. The "old city", close to the sea in the north, developed between 1619 and 1799 during the era of the VOC. The "new city" to the south evolved between...
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    ISBN 978-0-313-38370-0. Bassett, Richard (2015). For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918. Yale University Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-300-17858-6....
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    Markus Sittich von Hohenems (category 1619 deaths)
    Years' War in 1618. On 16 July 1619, he received the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand II en route to the Imperial election in Frankfurt. Joined by the English...
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    played a vital role in raising the comital House of Habsburg to the rank of Imperial princes. Rudolf was born on 1 May 1218 at Limburgh Castle near Sasbach...
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    deprive the emperor of his imperial dignity. The Dictatus papae, a papal document issued in 1075 shortly after the election of Gregory VII, states that...
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    Austria, and obtained the election as Holy Roman Emperor against the candidacy of the French king. Since the Imperial election, he was known as Emperor...
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    Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (category Burials at the Imperial Crypt)
    the election as king of the Romans at the Diet of Regensburg of 1630. After he had unsuccessfully applied for the supreme command of the Imperial army...
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    ching), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history. The dynasty, proclaimed...
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    period of free election ended with the ascension of the Austrian House of Habsburg, as an unbroken line of Habsburgs held the imperial throne until the...
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    Frederick V, Elector Palatine as their king, on 26 and 27 August 1619. After his election as German Emperor on August 28, Ferdinand conferred with the spiritual...
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    minor, Ottokar also hoped to obtain the Imperial dignity - as King of the Romans - for himself. However, his election bid was unsuccessful and Count William...
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    of 1356 issued by Emperor Charles IV defined the provisions of the Imperial election. Other nations with elective monarchies that produced anti-kings included...
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    with the title of Imperial Count (Reichsgraf), by diploma dated 18 September 1612. Even before the death of Emperor Matthias in 1619, Maximilian was under...
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