That did not come to the Sforza Dukes until 1494, when Emperor Maximilian formally invested Francesco's son, Lodovico ( also known as Ludovico Sforza ), as Duke of Milan.

After Imperial German troops drove out the French, Maximilian Sforza, son of Ludovico, became Duke of Milan ( 1513-1515 ) until the French returned under Francis I of France and imprisoned him.

* December 31 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1472 )

This brought him into a potential conflict with Maximilian, who on 16 March 1494 had married Bianca Maria Sforza, a daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan.

* Bianca Maria Sforza ( 1472 – 1510 ) — they were married in 1493, the marriage bringing Maximilian a rich dowry and allowing him to assert his rights as Imperial overlord of Milan.

* April 5 – Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1510 )

French forces under Gaston de Foix inflicted an overwhelming defeat on a Spanish army at the Battle of Ravenna in 1512, but Foix was killed during the battle, and the French were forced to withdraw from Italy by an invasion of Milan by the Swiss, who reinstated Maximilian Sforza to the ducal throne.

She would become the mother of Maximilian Sforza and Francesco II Sforza, future Dukes of Milan.

Bitterly regretting his decision, Ludovico then entered an alliance with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, by offering him in marriage his niece Bianca Sforza and receiving, in return, imperial investiture of the duchy and joining the league against France.

The Swiss later restored the duchy of Milan to Ludovico's son, Maximilian Sforza.

Maximilian Sforza

Maximilian Sforza

Julius had hired another army of Swiss mercenaries ; they descended on Milan, bringing with them Maximilian Sforza, who was determined to regain control of the Duchy for his family.

Julius and the Venetians insisted that Maximilian Sforza be permitted to keep the Duchy of Milan ; Emperor Maximilian and Ferdinand conspired instead to have one of their cousins installed as duke.

The unpopularity of Maximilian Sforza, who was seen by the Milanese as a puppet of his Swiss mercenaries, enabled the French to move through Lombardy with little resistance ; Trémoille, having seized Milan, besieged the remaining Swiss in Novara.

French forces under Gaston de Foix inflicted an overwhelming defeat on a Spanish army at the Battle of Ravenna in 1512, but Foix was killed during the battle, and the French were forced to withdraw from Italy by an invasion of Milan by the Swiss, who reinstated Maximilian Sforza to the ducal throne.

He was knighted in 1514 by the Milanese duke Maximilian Sforza.

* Bianca Maria Sforza ( 1472 – 1510 ), who married Philibert I, Duke of Savoy and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

In 1488 he was appointed Governor of the Netherlands ( until 1493 ) and marched with the imperial forces to free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at Bruges, and when, in 1489, the King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his representative to prosecute the war against the rebels.

In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilian I after ten years of joint rule.

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

He had formed an alliance with Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, but in 1493, when they went to war with France, England was dragged into the conflict.

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 ).

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.

After the regency ended, Maximilian and Charles VIII of France exchanged these two territories for Burgundy and Picardy in the Treaty of Senlis ( 1493 ).

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.

In 1493, Maximilian contracted another marriage for himself, this time to the daughter of the Duke of Milan, whence ensued the lengthy Italian Wars with France.

At the invitation of Duke Philip's father, King Maximilian I, he attended the funeral of Emperor Frederick III in 1493 and was recognised as King Richard IV of England.

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

Louis was swift to re-engage, and forced Maximilian to agree to the Treaty of Arras ( 1482 ) by which Franche-Comté and Artois passed for a time to French rule, only to be regained by the Treaty of Senlis ( 1493 ), which established peace in the Low Countries.

Maximilian I of Habsburg, elected King of the Romans since 1493, after 1477 had to defend his claims to the heritage of his deceased wife Mary of Burgundy against intriguing Louis XI of France, while subsequent to the 1453 Fall of Constantinople the expansion of the Ottoman Empire on the Balkans proceeded.

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

In 1493, the King Charles VII of France, son of Louis XI signed the Treaty of Senlis with the Duke of Burgundy, Maximilian I of Austria.

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

Although the New Testament nowhere mentions that divine battle aid could be gained from Christ ,< ref > Padberg 1998: 48 > crowned by the Pope was Maximilian I in 1493.

After the Hundred Years ' War ( 1337 – 1453 ) and the Treaty of Picquigny ( 1475 ) – its official end date – in 1492 and 1493, Charles VIII of France signed three additional treaties with Henry VII of England, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Ferdinand II of Aragon respectively at Étaples ( 1492 ), Senlis ( 1493 ) and in Barcelona ( 1493 ).

* Philip the Handsome ( 1482 – 1506 ), Mary's son ; Maximilian I, his father, as regent ( 1482 – 1493 )

Among the significant events organised by Burchard as Ceremoniere were: the visit of Don Federigo de Aragon to Rome ( December 1493 to January 1494 ); the coronation of Alfonso II of Naples ( May 1494 ); the reception of Charles VIII of France in Rome ( November 1494 to February 1495 ); the Papal Embassy to the Emperor Maximilian in Milan ( July – November 1496 ); the Proclamation of the Jubilee ( Christmas 1499 ); the visit of Alexander VI to Piombino ( January – March 1502 ); and obsequies of Pope Alexander VI ( August 1503 ).

* Maximilian I ( 1493 – 1519 ), son, also Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor from 1508

* 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.

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

* 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.

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

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.