Some notable collectors were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Henry IV of France and Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, who started the Berlin Coin Cabinet ( German: Münzkabinett Berlin ).

* 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.

It was not an unnatural decision: his cousin, Louis of Baden, was already a leading general in the Imperial army, as was a more distant cousin, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

After Ferdinand died in 1564, his son Maximilian II became Emperor, and like his father, accepted the existence of Protestantism and the need for occasional compromise with it.

Maximilian was succeeded in 1576 by Rudolf II, a strange man who preferred classical Greek philosophy to Christianity and lived an isolated existence in Bohemia.

Under Emperor Maximilian II, the Bohemian state assembly established the " Confessio Bohemica ," upon which Lutherans, Reformed, and Bohemian Brethren agreed.

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

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.

In 1623 during the Thirty Years ' War Munich became electoral residence when Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria was invested with the electoral dignity but in 1632 the city was occupied by Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.

In 1508, events so favoured the plans of Julius that he was able to conclude the League of Cambrai with Louis XII, King of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ferdinand II, King of Aragon.

Among other things, Julius wanted the Venetian possession of Romagna ; Emperor Maximilian I wanted Friuli and Veneto ; Louis XII wanted Cremona ; and Ferdinand II wanted the Apulian ports. This war was a conflict in what was collectively known as the " Italian Wars ".

He was the eldest son and successor of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia ; his mother was Maria of Spain, a daughter of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal.

His Grand Vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty ( 17 February 1568 ) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " present " of 30, 000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia.

Much to the consternation of their Spanish ruling cousins, the Habsburg emperors who followed Charles V ( especially Ferdinand I and Maximilian II, but also Rudolf II, and his successor Matthias ) were content for the princes of the Empire to choose their own religious policies.

In 1722, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to whom Albinoni had dedicated a set of twelve concertos, invited him to direct two of his operas in Munich.

* July 11 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1726 )

* March 10 – King Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria, ( b. 1811 )

* Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner becomes the advisor to Archduke Maximilian, brother of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II in Vienna.

* October 8 – Thirty Years ' War – The Treaty of Munich is signed by Ferdinand II and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.

* February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria ( b. 1662 )

At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin, on 5 April 1513, with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Henry VIII of England.

Collectors of coins were Pope Boniface VIII, Emperor Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, Louis XIV of France, Ferdinand I, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg who started the Berlin coin cabinet and Henry IV of France to name a few.

Austria itself was now facing the direct threat of invasion from across the border in Bavaria where the state's Elector, Maximilian Emanuel, had declared for the Bourbons in August the previous year.

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

James Louis Sobieski ’ s own mother, Marie Casimire, favored her son-in-law, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Clemens August ( Clementus Augustus ) was born in Brussels, the son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska and the grandson of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

Maximilian II ( July 11, 1662 – February 26, 1726 ), also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a ' Kurfürst of the Holy Roman Empire.

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

The war was finally ended in 1713 in the Treaty of Utrecht which restored Maximilian Emanuel.

Back in Bavaria, Maximilian Emanuel put much energy on his building projects to balance the failure of his political ambitions.

Maximilian Emanuel then supported the new wars of the Habsburg against the Turks with Bavarian auxiliary forces ( 1717 ).

Maximilian Emanuel founded in 1726 the Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, a dynastic Order of the Royal House of Bavaria.

Maximilian Emanuel is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich.

During his entire reign Maximilian II Emanuel patronized the arts.

Villars and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, moved their army to intercept this force, ordering another French force of 7, 000 men under d ' Usson near Dillingen to attack from the rear.

However, Villars and Maximilian Emanuel arrived just in time, falling upon the Imperial army before it could adjust its positions.

The Emperor, however, favoured Joseph Clement, the brother of Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Duke Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria, Prince of Asturias ( 28 October 1692 – 6 February 1699 ) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 1679 – 1705, 1714 – 1726 ) and his first wife, Maria Antonia of Austria, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal granddaughter of King Felipe IV of Spain.

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

He was the eldest son of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony — younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony — by his first wife, Caroline of Bourbon, Princess of Parma.

The Arms of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria | Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, Arch-Steward and Prince-Elector.

* February 25 – Thirty Years ' War: Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes Elector of the Electorate of the Palatinate.

* April 17 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1651 )

* September 27 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( b. 1573 )

Frederick V's territories and his position as Elector were transferred to the Duke of Bavaria, Maximilian I, of a distantly related branch of the House of Wittelsbach.

The rescue operation was led by Maximilian IV Joseph, Prince Elector of Bavaria ( the future Maximilian I Joseph ).

1623 edict by Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1578 – 1637 ) awarding Frederick's lands and titles to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria ( 1573 – 1651 ).

On 23 February 1623, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor awarded Frederick's electoral title to Maximilian of Bavaria, who now became Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.