When Ferdinand's father suffered an untimely demise, Ferdinand buried him to the foot of his special tree.

They were first cousins as Maria Anna's mother was a sister of Ferdinand's father.

When his father ascended the Spanish throne in 1759 he abdicated Naples in Ferdinand's favor in accordance with the treaties forbidding the union of the two crowns.

Another instance in which Berengaria's mediation stood out developed in 1218 when the scheming Lara family, still headed by former regent Álvaro Núñez de Lara, conspired to have Alfonso IX, King of León and King Ferdinand's father, invade Castile to seize his son's throne.

Ferdinand's father was a silk merchant and intended his son for a business career, sending him to the commercial school at Leipzig.

With the death of the King's third wife on 27 May 1829, Ferdinand's desperation to father an heir for his crown resulted in his fourth marriage just seven months later.

Born an Austrian archduchess, the thirteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I, she married Ferdinand as part of an Austrian alliance with Spain, where Ferdinand's father was King.

Like his father, though, Ferdinand was extremely devoted to his wife, and she dictated much of his policy and political decisions ; at the time of Ferdinand's coronation in 1746, it was said that " Queen Barbara has succeeded Queen Elizabeth.

Due to the influence of his father Erasmus Laub ( 1794 – 1865 ), Ferdinand's first public appearance happened when he was 6 years old.

Completed around 1623, after the death of Ferdinand's father Cosimo II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the painting shows Maria Maddalena in the center, with her right hand next to Cosimo II's crown and her left hand resting on her young son's shoulder.

Since the portrait was delivered with a posthumous portrait of Ferdinand's father, Cosimo II, it is quite possible that this painting is meant to look to the past, just as the posthumous portrait of Cosmio II looked back to the time when he was alive.

In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles's Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand's Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

Under the protection of King François I of France, he assumed the title of King of Navarre and was lavishly crowned in Lescar, despite Ferdinand's claim being continued by his grandson Charles I.

The likelihood of assistance was further reduced by the conflict of Ferdinand's older brother, Emperor Charles V, and King Francis I of France that once again flared into open war in the summer of 1526.

Ferdinand's death led to the ascension of young Charles to the throne as Charles I of Castile and Aragon, effectively founding the monarchy of Spain.

Still, the very act of resistance to the French involved a certain degree of deviation from the doctrine of royal sovereignty: if sovereignty resided entirely in the monarch, then Charles and Ferdinand's abdications in favor of Napoleon would have made Joseph Bonaparte the legitimate ruler of Spain.

Ferdinand's successor was Charles III, son of Philip V by his second wife, Elizabeth Farnese.

When Frederick's descendant, Emperor Ferdinand I, died in 1564, Carniola was separated again as part of Inner Austria under the rule of Ferdinand's son Archduke Charles II.

Impressed by Trivulzio's capabilities, Charles decided to engage him, with Ferdinand's permission, for a wage of 10, 000 ducats a year.

In turn the estates, unlike the Bohemian utraquists, remained neutral in the Schmalkaldic War of 1546 / 47 and even arranged troops in support of Ferdinand's brother Emperor Charles V — against the fierce protest of reformer Johannes Bugenhagen.

After Ferdinand's death in 1516, the sixteen-year-old Charles was proclaimed King Charles I of both Castile and Aragon.

Later, the Marinids tried to recover the former Almohad territories in the Iberian peninsula, but they were definitively defeated by Sancho IV, Ferdinand's grandson, and King Afonso IV of Portugal in the Battle of Salado, the last major military encounter between large Christian and Muslim armies in the Iberian peninsula.

These works frequently feature musical metaphors: in the lamentations on the deaths of the lutenist Blancrocher and Ferdinand IV, Froberger represents Blacrocher's fatal fall down a flight of stairs with a descending scale, and Ferdinand's ascent into heaven with an ascending one ; in the Ferdinand III lamentation he ends the piece with a single voice repeating an F three times.

In 1814 Ferdinand's eldest surviving son Francis IV was recognised as Duke of Modena by the Congress of Vienna.

The border of Navarre was set by the Ebro, and the new king Sancho IV of Navarre became Ferdinand's vassal.

Ferdinand's death in 1833 and the accession of Isabella II as Queen of Spain sparked the First Carlist War ( 1833 – 1839 ).

Ferdinand's resurgence as a ruler in Spain meant that no European nation was willing to recognize Mexico's independence and most broke off economic ties with the new state.

In the same year he accompanied the Marquess of Dorset's expedition to Spain, where he was made captain by Ferdinand V. After Ferdinand's death he returned to England.

In a series of dynastic alliances, Maria Antonia became engaged to Infante Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias ( who later became King Ferdinand VII of Spain ), while her eldest brother, Francis, became engaged to Infante Ferdinand's sister Infanta Maria Isabella of Spain.

Ferdinand's absolutist rule rewarded the traditional holders of power — prelates, nobles and those who held office before 1808 — but not liberals, who wished to see a constitutional monarchy in Spain, or many who led the war effort against the French but had not been part of the pre-war government.

The two kings now quarreled over the division of the spoils ; Ferdinand's insistence that he be recognized as king of both Naples and Sicily soon led to war between France and Spain.

* John I, then Master of Aviz, was elected by the Council of the Kingdom King of Portugal on 6 April 1385 in the aftermath of 1383 – 1385 Crisis, his half-brother Ferdinand I had died without a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the throne for Princess Beatrice, Ferdinand's only daughter and Queen consort of Castile and León or her uncles Infante John, Duke of Valencia de Campos and Infante Denis, Lord of Cifuentes, but the Council elected the younger and yet illegitimate son of Peter I.

Ferdinand's oppressive government led in 1485 to an attempt at revolt on the part of the nobles, led by Francesca Coppola and Antonello Sanseverino of Salerno and supported by Pope Innocent VIII ; the rising having been crushed, many of the nobles, notwithstanding Ferdinand's promise of a general amnesty, were afterwards treacherously murdered at his express command.

Consequently, Maniu refused to attend King Ferdinand's Crowning ceremony as King of Greater Romania ( held in Alba Iulia, in 1922 ), seeing it as an attempt to tie multi-religious Transylvania to Orthodoxy.

This failed attempt on Ferdinand's life proved to be a key part in the assassination as Ferdinand insisted on visiting the bomb victims at the local hospital.

Once it became clear that the Portuguese had no intention of ransoming him ( and after a hare-brained attempt to escape ), Ferdinand's status as a noble hostage was downgraded and he was subjected to ordeals and humiliations by his Moroccan jailers.

Its members knew that Maria Christina and Isabella would make liberal reforms, so they looked for another candidate for the throne ; and their natural choice, with the background of the Salic Law, was Ferdinand's brother Carlos.

However, Ferdinand's plans would be disrupted by Liberal Revolution, and Ferdinand was eventually forced to give up all of the New World colonies, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico.

In 1526, following the Battle of Mohács, in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was killed, Ferdinand expanded his territories, bringing Bohemia and that part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans under his rule.

* Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, ruler of the Tirol married firstly Philippine Welser, a bourgeois girl though very wealthy ; their children were given a separate title and the issue of Ferdinand's second ( and equal ) marriage were preferred.

In December 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of Ministerpräsident Felix zu Schwarzenberg's plan to end the Revolutions of 1848 in Austria, which allowed Ferdinand's nephew Franz Joseph to ascend to the throne.

" Two private Castilian documents dated 1 January 1037 both express Ferdinand's continuing vassalage to the Leonese monarch explicitly, dating themselves by the reign of " king Bermudo and Ferdinand, count in his realms ".< ref > In the first Rodrigo Téllez, on the occasion of his entering the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, donated his inheritance in Jaramillo to the monastery ( Martínez Díez 2007, 182: rex Vermudo et Fredinando comes in regnis suis ).

Ferdinand was first titled " emperor " not by himself or his own scribes, but by the notaries of his half-brother, the petty king Ramiro I of Aragon, whose notaries were also calling Ferdinand's predecessor as king of León by the same title.

His elder brother, Ferdinand de la Cerda, died in November 1275, and in 1282 Sancho assembled a coalition of nobles to declare for him against Ferdinand's son Alfonso, then took control of the kingdom when Alfonso X died in 1284.

But perhaps her most decisive intervention on Ferdinand's behalf took place in 1230, when Alfonso IX died and designated as heirs to the throne his daughters Sancha and Dulce from his first marriage to Theresa of Portugal, superseding the rights of Ferdinand III.

It is also the ( alleged ) birthplace of Leopold Loyka, the driver of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car when Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo 1914, an event which triggered the First World War.

On 1 December 1656, he signed an alliance with Ferdinand III of Habsburg in Vienna, essentially a declaration of Ferdinand III's intend to mediate a peace rather than provide military aid, which did not come into effect until Ferdinand's death on 2 April 1657.

Liman would supervise the building of the nearby Pelişor Chateau ( 1889 – 1903, the future residence of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania ), as well as of King Ferdinand's villa in the Royal Sheepfold Meadow.

In 2004, the Fire Engines reformed to support The Magic Band at The Liquid Room in Edinburgh, and released a limited edition collaboration single with Franz Ferdinand ; The seven inch single contained a Franz Ferdinand cover of the Fire Engines song " Get Up and Use Me " with Fire Engines covering Franz Ferdinand's " Jacqueline ".

Political fortunes turned, however, and Ferdinand, to whom Hubmaier had already become an enemy while in Waldshut, gained control of Bohemia, thus placing Hubmaier once again in Ferdinand's jurisdiction.

At the same time many bodies were moved to those new areas, others were moved from the Tuscan Vault and Ferdinand ’ s Vault and walled up into the corner piers of Ferdinand's Vault.

Čabrinović hid in an alleyway, and as soon as Ferdinand drove past, he threw his bomb at Ferdinand's car, but forgot about the ten second delay.