** Ferdinand III ( 1759 – 1815 )

* 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

* Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1608 – 1657 )

In the last years of the reign of Ferdinand III of Castile, Castilian began to be used for certain types of documents, and it was during the reign of Alfonso X that it became the official language.

The rule of the Spanish Bourbons continued under Ferdinand VI ( 1746 – 1759 ) and Charles III ( 1759 – 1788 ).

The duchy of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf was confiscated by Ferdinand III of the Holy Roman Empire in 1622.

* 1227 – 1233: Abou el-Ala Idris el-Mamoune ( 2 prétendant à la succession, soutenu par le souverain chrétien Ferdinand III de Castille ).

* 1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1824 )

** Ferdinand III of Castile

* 1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.

The Peace of Westphalia treaties involved the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand III, of the House of Habsburg, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the free imperial cities and can be denoted by two major events.

The power taken by Ferdinand III in contravention of the Holy Roman Empire's constitution was stripped and returned to the rulers of the Imperial States.

Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic League against the Protestants -- to the tune of a million gold ducats -- as well as Sigismund III Vasa, King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire.

* July 13 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1657 )

* April 2 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( born 1608 )

* Archduke Ferdinand III of Austria, heir apparent of the Habsburg Monarchy and a future Holy Roman Emperor, already King of Hungary ascends to be king of the religiously troubled Bohemia where his ( still living ) father's repression of Protestantism had triggered the ongoing Thirty Years ' War in 1618.

* February 15 – Ferdinand III becomes the Holy Roman Emperor.

* May 30 – King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon

* June 18 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1769 )

* May 6 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1824 )

* August 10 – Ferdinand VI of Spain dies and is succeeded by his half – brother Charles III.

* February – At Carrión the king of Castile, Ferdinand III announces his intention to resume his effort of reconquest against al-Andalus.

* Reconquista: King Ferdinand III of Castile recaptures the city of Seville from the Moors and Prince Alfonso X of Castile the city of Alicante.

* August 21 – Sancho III and Ferdinand II, the sons of King Alfonso VII of Castile, divide his kingdom between them upon his death.

* May 8 – Otto von Guericke demonstrates the power of atmospheric pressure and the effectiveness of his vacuum pump using the Magdeburg hemispheres before Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

* January 17 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( born 1835 )

* June 10 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ( d. 1908 )

* Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1835 – 1908 ), grand duke from 1859 to 1860

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

In February 1848, there were revolts in Tuscany that were relatively nonviolent, after which Grand Duke Ferdinand granted the Tuscans a constitution.

Ferdinand was elected Knyaz of autonomous Bulgaria by its Grand National Assembly on 7 July 1887 in the Gregorian calendar ( the " New Style " used hereinafter ).

In 1817, Charles Albert married his second cousin once removed, Maria Theresa of Austria, the youngest daughter of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily.

Born in Florence, Italy at the Palazzo Pitti on 26 April 1575, Marie was the sixth daughter of Francesco I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

* Ferdinand Pajor, " Cockerell and the ' Grand Tour '"

* Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, also known as Ferdinand II de Medici ( 1610 – 1670 ), Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1620

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 6 May 1769 – 18 June 1824 ) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824.

When his father was elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand succeeded him as Grand Duke of Tuscany, officially taking the office on 22 July 1790.

On 30 May 1814, after Napoleon's fall, Ferdinand was restored as Grand Duke of Tuscany.

In Naples on 15 August 1790 by proxy and in Vienna on 19 September 1790 in person, Ferdinand married firstly his double first cousin, the Princess ( later Grand Duchess ) Luisa of Naples and Sicily ( 1773-1802 ), daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Marie Caroline of Austria.

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit

* 1805-Victor Dourlen (" first " First Grand Prize ) and Ferdinand Gasse (" second " First Grand Prize )