Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1459 – 1519 ) is often referred to as the last true knight.

* 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1519 )

* January 12 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1459 )

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt on 22 March 1459.

* Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1459 – 1519 )

It is perhaps first observed in Maximilian I ( 1459 – 1519 ).

Through his marriage with Mary of Burgundy, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1459 – 1519 ) came into the possession of important books from Burgundy and north France, and brought these to Wiener Neustadt.

* 1792 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer ( b. 1720 )

* 1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1651 )

* 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* 1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria ( d. 1801 )

* 1930 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor and film director

* 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

* 1892 – Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general ( d. 1984 )

* 1457 – Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1482 )

In the Siege of Neuss ( 1474 – 75 ), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian.

* 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, German politician, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1929 )

* 1867 – Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

* 1861 – Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral ( d. 1914 )

* 1832 – Maximilian I of Mexico ( d. 1867 )

* 1662 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1726 )

* 1894 – Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr ( d. 1941 )

* 1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.

The emperor Maximilian II diffused the greatest threat by remaining on friendly terms with the czar, but not sending him troops as requested, in his struggles with the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

* 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.

Maximilian Karl Emil " Max " Weber (; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself.

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

During his reign from 1493 to 1519, Maximilian I tried to reform the Empire.

In 1507 he was appointed tutor to Emperor Maximilian I's ( 1493 – 1519 ) seven year old grandson, Charles, who was later to become Emperor Charles V ( 1519 – 56 ).

* March 22 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1519 )

The death of the emperor Maximilian in 1519 had seriously affected the situation.

Having outlived his father Philip, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.

At first, this policy seemed successful, and Maximilian managed to secure the votes from Mainz, Cologne, Brandenburg and Bohemia for his grandson Charles V. The death of Maximilian in 1519 seemed to put the succession at risk, but in a few months the election of Charles V was secured.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor portrayed by Albrecht Dürer 1519

Mary and Maximilian ’ s grandson Charles became king of Spain as Charles I in 1516 and Holy Roman emperor as Charles V in 1519.

When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg von Hohenzollern, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

# Margaret of Austria ( 1480-1530 ) who was Governor of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands ( 1507 – 1515, 1519 – 1530 ) and a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy and had no children from this marriage.

After the death of his paternal grandfather, Maximilian, in 1519, he inherited the Habsburg Monarchy.

* Maximilian I ( 1493 – 1519 ), also Holy Roman Emperor 1508-1519

In the contest for the imperial throne upon the death of Maximilian in 1519, Sickingen accepted bribes from King Francis I of France, but when the election took place he led his troops to Frankfurt, where their presence assisted to secure the election of Charles V. For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.

Emperor Maximilian I died in Wels on January 12, 1519, after having been denied access to Innsbruck by its citizens.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519, formed the first mercenary Landsknecht regiments in 1487.

Others included Die Narrenbeschwörung ( 1512 ); Die Schelmenzunft ( 1512 ); Die Gäuchmatt, which treats of enamoured fools ( 1519 ), and a translation of Virgil's Aeneid ( 1515 ) dedicated to the emperor Maximilian I. Murner also wrote the humorous Chartiludium logicae ( 1507 ) and the Ludus studentum Friburgensium ( 1511 ), besides a translation of Justinian's Institutiones ( 1519 ).

After the death of Maximilian in January 1519 the Swabian League interfered in the struggle, and Ulrich was driven from Württemberg, which was afterwards sold by the league to the emperor Charles V.

* Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1493 – 1519 )