On the other hand, at a synod convened by Louis at Tours in September 1510 the French bishops withdrew from papal obedience, and resolved, with Emperor Maximilian's cooperation, to seek the deposition of the pope.

Also Maximilian's second wife, Bianca Maria Sforza, brought into the marriage as dowry, among other things, books from Italian workshops.

By a new Constitution of 25 February 1827, Maximilian's son and successor, Ludwig I declared that the King was always to be Grand Master, the Crown Prince the first Grand Prior and other Princes of the Bavarian Royal House second Grand Priors.

Many of the crowned heads of Europe and other prominent figures ( including liberals Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Garibaldi ) sent telegrams and letters to Mexico pleading for Maximilian's life to be spared, but Juárez refused to commute the sentence, believing that it was necessary to send a message that Mexico would not tolerate any government imposed by foreign powers.

European architects Kayser and Hofmann worked on several other revival castles, including Neuschwanstein Castle – built by Maximilian's Wittelsbach cousin Ludwig II of Bavaria twenty years after Chapultepec's renovation.

Maximilian's grandson, Charles V of Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Spain, eventually united all seventeen provinces under his rule, the last one being the Duchy of Guelders, in 1543.

But after the battle of Dornach, the Swabian League was war-weary and had lost all confidence in the king's abilities as a military leader, and thus refused Maximilian's demands to muster a new army.

Visitors to the castle will be able to see the following: Maximilian's chambers and those of his consort, Charlotte ; the guest rooms ; the information room telling the history of the castle and the park's construction ; the Duke Amedeo of Aosta's apartment with furnishings from the 1930s in the Rationalist style.

Similarly, Maximilian's son Philip and John's sister Joanna were to be married.

At the end of Maximilian's rule, the Habsburgs ' mountain of debt totalled 6 million gulden ; this corresponded to a decade's worth of tax revenues from the their inherited lands.

After it became clear that Maximilian's policies in Italy had been unsuccessful, and after 1517 Venice reconquered the last pieces of their territory from Maximilian, the emperor now started to focus entirely on the question of his succession.

Maximilian's power was very limited ; it was inability rather than unwillingness that prevented him from yielding to the entreaties of Pope Pius V to join in an attack on the Turks both before and after the victory of Lepanto in 1571 ; and he remained inert while the authority of the empire in north-eastern Europe was threatened.

He remained under the Maximilian's employment from 1496 until his death, although he did not remain stationary during that period.

Maximilian's liberal views cost him support from Mexican conservatives as well.

By the early 1490s, the turmoil of the interregnum gave way to an uneasy stand-off, with neither French support for the cities of the Franc ( Flanders ), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father Frederick III proving decisive.

Maximilian's bed, a wedding gift from Pope Pius IX, was never slept in.

Whilst in Liège, the college received patronage from Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the blue and silver on the College's coat of arms was adopted from Maximilian's own crest.

* Plates from Prince Maximilian's Travels in Brazil ( London, 1820 )

A third is from the emperor Maximilian's book Der Weisskunig of the early 16th century in an illustration entitled The Battle Against the Blue Company and is shown being carried by a Swiss soldier.

In 1619 upon the death of his kinsman and former rival, he became governor of Maximilian's inheritance: Further Austria and Tirol, where he attained the position of a sovereign, i. e. Archduke of Further Austria from 1623 to 1630.

She had two stepchildren from Maximilian's marriage to Mary of Burgundy, Philip the Handsome, who married Joanna of Castile, and Archduchess Margaret of Austria, who married firstly, John, Prince of Asturias and secondly Philibert II, Duke of Savoy.

As the last of the junior branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty which derived from Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and had ruled Bavaria since early 14th century, Maximilian's death led to a succession dispute and the brief War of the Bavarian Succession.

Maximilian's widow Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony and his sister Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria negotiated with Prussia to secure Bavaria's independence from Austria, which had invaded portions of the duchy immediately after the Elector's death.

Maximilian's second marriage in 1493 with Bianca Maria Sforza from Milan then got the Habsburgs directly involved in the Italian Wars, clashing again with the French kings over the control of the Duchy of Milan.

On his return to Verona his standing in his rione made him of use to Emperor Maximilian, who was headquartered in Verona from 1509 to 1517, during the episode of the Italian Wars called the War of the League of Cambrai, and not simply for painting imperial arms to replace those of Venice that had been effaced on Maximilian's orders.

From left to right: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | Maximilian I ; Maximilian's granddaughter, Mary of Austria ( 1505-1558 ) | Mary and Vladislaus's son Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia | Louis ; Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary | Vladislaus II ; Vladislaus's daughter, Anna of Bohemia and Hungary | Anna ; Vladislaus's brother, Sigismund I the Old | Sigismund I of Poland.

She strongly advised Mary to accept Maximilian's suit, and marry him immediately ; he arrived in Burgundy on 5 August 1477, and by 17 August had arrived at Ten Waele Castle, in Ghent.

The place of birth of Maximilian's father is unknown ; the settlements Körmöcbánya ( today Kremnica ), Schlagenwald, ( today Horní Slavkov ) or Schlackenwerth ( today Ostrov nad Ohří ) are most frequently given.

His next stop was Leipzig, and thence to Vienna, where he hoped to win the emperor Maximilian's favour by an elaborate national poem on the war with Venice.

Because of a lack of horses, as well as general disorganization, Maximilian's forces would not reach Padua until September, giving Pitigliano the time to concentrate such troops as were still available to him in the city.

Because of a lack of horses, as well as general disorganization, Maximilian's forces would not reach Padua until September, giving Pitigliano the time to concentrate such troops as were still available to him in the city.

Maximilian's wife had inherited the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.

After Mary's tragic death in a riding accident on 27 March 1482 near the Wijnendale Castle, Maximilian's aim was now to secure the inheritance to one of his and Mary's children, Philip the Handsome.

* Anne of Brittany ( 1477 – 1514 ) — they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII ( the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria ) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.

Evidently, this position was already established by 1486, when Schlick performed at the election of Archduke Maximilian as King of the Romans at Frankfurt, on February 16 ( Schlick may also have performed at Maximilian's coronation six weeks later ).

Although Austria made diplomatic protests, claiming that the marriage was illegal because the bride was unwilling, that she was already legally married to Maximilian, and that Charles was legally betrothed to Margaret of Austria, Maximilian's daughter, Anne celebrated her second wedding to Charles VIII at the castle of Langeais on 6 December 1491.

He named the home he built on the ranch Miramar in the 1890s, after Archduke Maximilian's castle Miramare in Trieste, Italy.

Maximilian's son, the Elector Karl-Albrecht, gave the new Order its title of Order of the Holy Knight and Martyr Saint George and the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary and established its statutes on March 28, 1729 as a Military Order of Chivalry for Roman Catholic noblemen.

Maximilian's French cabinet members resigned on 18 September.

The French maintained a minimal naval presence, with the bulk of their forces in Mexico trying to bolster Emperor Maximilian's unstable regime.

After Maximilian's death, she undertook the regency for their oldest son, Ferdinand Maria.