Busbecq ended his career as the guardian of Elisabeth of Austria, Maximilian's daughter and widow of French king Charles IX.

Her final public appearance was at the premiere of her brother Maximilian's documentary film, My Sister Maria ( 2002 ).

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

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.

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

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.

There they arranged for Maximilian's granddaughter Mary to marry Louis, the son of Ladislaus, and for Anne ( the sister of Louis ) to marry Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand ( both grandchildren being the children of Philip the Handsome, Maximilian's son, and Joanna of Castile ).

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

The Bavarian Coronation Set consists of the Crown of Bavaria, the Crown of the Queen ( originally made for Maximilian's Queen, Caroline Frederika of Baden ), the State Sword, the Royal Orb and the Royal Sceptre.

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.

Maximilian's successors resisted German nationalism, and Bavaria became the protector of smaller states whose leaders felt threatened by Prussia or Austria in the German Confederation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moments later, Zeschau's Saxon brigade, with Prince Maximilian's regiment attached to it, came in support, but these troops had been much disordered when crossing the Russbach, and upon entering the smoke filled streets of the village, they too lost impetus.

At Rokycany, Maximilian's forces first met with the 15, 000 ragtag, poorly paid, poorly equipped troops that Frederick had managed to raise.

It was Emperor Maximilian's wish to directly link his Imperial residence, Chapultepec Castle, with the National Palace in the city center.

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.

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

He returned with those troops to France after the fall of Chapultepec and Maximilian's execution.

Abaco was only a few months in Munich, when he was forced to flee with the court to Brussels, following Maximilian's defeat at the Battle of Blenheim.

Born at the end of the European Enlightenment, Maximilian became friends with two of its major figures: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a major comparative anthropologist under whom he studied biological sciences, and Alexander von Humboldt, who served as Maximilian's mentor.

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.

Having associated himself with the party of reform, he was regarded with suspicion by the Bavarian king Maximilian I and the court party, although favoured for a time by Maximilian's son, the future King Louis I.

Maximilian's alliance with Emperor Napoleon earned him the royal title and vast territorial increases at the Treaty of Pressburg ( 1805 ).

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.

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.

Maximilian's other experts proposed that all books should be taken from the Jews ; and, as the emperor still hesitated, his opponents threw on Reuchlin the whole blame of their ill success.

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

* 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.

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.

* 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.

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.

When he was arrested and executed four years later, admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff was sent aboard the Novara to take Ferdinand Maximilian's body back to Austria.