During his reign, he also set about creating the Second Mexican Empire ( headed by his choice of Maximilian I of Mexico, a member of the House of Habsburg ), to regain France's hold in the Americas and to achieve greatness for the ' Latin ' race.

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.

In 1861 Napoleon III largely supported Maximilian in his claim to Mexico, a move that was also supported by Britain and Spain but condemned by the U. S. This led to the French intervention in Mexico, which turned out to be a failure.

In short time, both Henry VIII, King of England ( 1509 – 47 ), and Maximilian I also joined the " Holy League of 1511.

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.

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.

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.

Due to the difficult external and internal situation he faced, Maximilian also felt it necessary to introduce reforms in the historic territories of the House of Habsburg in order to finance his army.

Another of his sons, Matthias, also became emperor ; three others, Ernest, Albert and Maximilian, took some part in the government of the Habsburg territories or of the Netherlands, and a daughter, Elizabeth, married Charles IX of France.

Warbeck also promised that if he died before becoming king, his claim would fall to Maximilian.

He also created artworks for emperor Maximilian I and for Margrave Casimir Hohenzollern von Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

Maximilian of Baden ( also known as Max von Baden ; full name: Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm of Baden ) ( 10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929 ) was a German prince and politician.

Innsbruck became the capital of all Tyrol in 1429 and in the fifteenth century the city became a centre of European politics and culture as emperor Maximilian I also resided in Innsbruck in the 1490s.

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.

The next year, he was summoned back to Austria by his father, the Emperor ; Burgundy was left to be governed by Margaret together with the Burgundian Estates, both of whom also undertook the guardianship of the young Duke Philip, although Maximilian continued to take a distant interest in the country, and a greater interest in his children.

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

Isaac also continued to receive payments from the court of Maximilian I regardless of his living in Florence.

She was the daughter of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony, and his wife Caroline of Bourbon-Parma ; she was also his first cousin once removed, as well as the first cousin once removed of the dead Luisa.

* 1520-German missionary Maximilian Uhland, also known as Bernardino de San José, goes to Hispaniola with the newly appointed Bishop Alessandro Geraldini.

The conflict over the Auschwitz cross near Auschwitz I typifies these controversies, as Auschwitz is also the site of the martyrdom ( according to the Catholic Church ) of saints such as Maximilian Kolbe.

The son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands ( as Philip IV ) from his mother, Mary of Burgundy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Joanna of Castile, who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon.

In 1806, Eugène married Princess Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia of Bavaria ( 1788 – 1851 ), eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, and his royal father-in-law made him Duke of Leuchtenberg and gave him the administration of the Principality of Eichstätt on 14 November 1817.

To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.

Nor did she stop there in supporting Mary and Maximilian ; when, on 22 July 1478, Mary gave birth to a son and heir, Philip, Louis XI had rumours spread that the child was in fact a girl.

Grant was also concerned about the situation in neighboring Mexico, where 40, 000 French soldiers were propping up the puppet regime of Austrian Archduke Maximilian, and gave Sheridan permission for a large Texas occupation force.

In January 1621, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II imposed the Ban of the Empire upon Frederick V and gave his electorate and the Upper Palatinate to Maximilian.

In 1861 at the age of sixteen, Ludwig began his military career when his uncle, King Maximilian II of Bavaria, gave him a commission as a lieutenant in the 6th Jägerbattalion.

Frisian freedom officially ended in 1498 when Emperor Maximilian I gave Friesland as a fief to Albert, Duke of Saxony to pay a 300, 000 guilder debt, but Albert had to conquer Friesland himself first.

King Maximilian already visited Traunstein on the 27th of April, contributed consolations and gave several thousands of guilders from his cabinet cash.

King Maximilian already visited Traunstein on the 27th of April, contributed consolations and gave several thousands of guilders from his cabinet cash.

King Maximilian gave the estate to Juraj Drašković ( 1525 – 1587 ) for services rendered, first personally, and then as family heritage.

Their frequent absences gave free scope for those feuds of the Chiroux and the Grignoux to which Maximilian Henry of Bavaria ( archbishop of Cologne, 1650 – 88 ) put a stop by the Edict of 1681.

The four kaisers are Frederick Barbarossa ( the first king to be elected in Frankfurt ), Louis the Bavarian ( who gave convention rights to the city and allowed an expansion of the city ), Charles IV ( who made Frankfurt the location of the Kaiser selection vote ), and Maximilian II ( the first kaiser to be crowned in Frankfurt cathedral ).

Two knights in jousting armour, from the Turnierbuch of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | Maximilian I ( Hans Burgkmair the Younger, ca.

After the conquest of Heidelberg, the Protestant churches were closed, the university was closed, and at the request of Maximilian, the great library, the famous Bibliotheca Palatina ( 3500 manuscripts ), was presented as a Thank you gift to Pope Gregory XV for the 620, 000 guilders he had provided for financing of the campaigns of the Catholic League.

On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.

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.

When the King Frederick Augustus I died ( 1827 ) and Anton succeeded him as King, Frederick Augustus became second in line to the throne, preceded only by his father Maximilian.

In Dresden on 24 April 1833 Frederick Augustus married secondly with the Princess Maria of Bavaria ( Maria Anna Leopoldine Elisabeth Wilhelmine ), daughter of the King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.

* 1508: Maximilian I the last ruling " King of the Romans " and the first " elected Emperor of the Romans ".

Juana, Isabella's second daughter, married into the Habsburg dynasty when she wed Philip the Handsome, the son of Maximilian I, King of Bohemia ( Austria ) and entitled to the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1804, he had moved from the University of Kiel to the University of Landshut, but, on being commanded by King Maximilian Joseph to draft a penal code for Bavaria ( Strafgesetzbuch für das Königreich Bayern ), in 1805 he moved to Munich where he was given a high appointment in the Ministry of Justice and was ennobled in 1808.

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.

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.

Varnbüler and Schwendiner fled to the court of King Maximilian and lost all their property in St. Gallen and Appenzell.

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

* September 22 – Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds as King of Bohemia.

* November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

Already before his coronation as the King of the Romans in 1486, Maximilian decided to secure this distant and extensive Burgundian inheritance to his family, the House of Habsburg, at all costs.