Ferdinand I Habsburg - Archduke of Austria and Duke of Styria and Carinthia, Count of Tyrol /Grafschaft Tirol/, King of Bohemia and Hungary, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor. Son of the rulers of Castile: King Philip I the Handsome and Queen Joanna the Mad. He was the husband of Anna Jagellon from Polish Jagiellonian dynasty. and a father of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and Queens of Poland: Elizabeth of Austria /LINK/and Catherine of Austria.
Ferdinand I Habsburg von Hans Bocksberger der Ältere, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Wien, Provenienz: 1780 aus der Innsbrucker Residenz nach Ambras, 16. Jahrhundert
Ferdinand I Habsburg (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died July 25, 1564, Vienna. His Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise of Lutheranism by recognizing the right of territorial princes to determine the religion of their subjects. He also converted the elected crowns of Bohemia and Hungary into hereditary possessions of the house of Habsburg. The younger brother of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, Ferdinand was granted Austria, with the regency of both the Habsburg German lands and Württemberg. For more than three decades he was Charles’s deputy in German affairs, representing him at imperial diets and serving as president of the Reichsregiment (imperial governmental council).
Innsbruck, castle Ambras
Aggrieved, however, at Charles’s refusal to reinstate him in recaptured Württemberg and at the emperor’s attempts to ensure the succession of his son Philip (the future Philip II of Spain) to the imperial crown, Ferdinand began to take a more independent stand. The imperial heir since 1531, he was not finally placated until Charles agreed in 1553 to exclude Philip from the German succession, which then passed to Ferdinand’s son, the future Maximilian II. On the Protestant issue, Ferdinand, unlike Charles, eventually became convinced of the need for a compromise. In 1552 he negotiated the Treaty of Passau with the Lutheran elector Maurice of Saxony, who was at war with the emperor; and in 1555 he signed the Peace of Augsburg, which, with few interruptions, brought half a century of peace to Germany’s warring religious factions.
Wien Hofburg Neue Burg Heldenplatz. Emperor Ferdinand I was the first to establish dedicated premises to hold the Habsburg collections in the Vienna Hofburg and is thus regarded as the founder of the Kunstkammer.
Ferdinand took over Charles’s imperial functions in 1555 and was elected emperor in 1558 after his brother’s abdication. With his accession, the Habsburg domains became separated into more easily governable Austrian and Spanish parts, with Spain going to Philip and Germany to Ferdinand. The new emperor centralized his administration and, though only with limited success, sought to revive Roman Catholicism in his lands. His eldest son, Maximilian, succeeded him in 1564. Though always overshadowed by his brother Charles V, Ferdinand had become one of the most successful Habsburg rulers of the 16th century, increasing the hereditary possessions of the Austrian Habsburgs significantly and restoring peace to the empire after decades of religious warfare.
Source inter alia: Wikipedia
Ferdinand I Habsburg von Hans Bocksberger der Ältere, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Wien, Provenienz: 1780 aus der Innsbrucker Residenz nach Ambras, 16. Jahrhundert
Ferdinand I Habsburg (born March 10, 1503, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died July 25, 1564, Vienna. His Peace of Augsburg (1555), concluded the era of religious strife in Germany following the rise of Lutheranism by recognizing the right of territorial princes to determine the religion of their subjects. He also converted the elected crowns of Bohemia and Hungary into hereditary possessions of the house of Habsburg. The younger brother of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V, Ferdinand was granted Austria, with the regency of both the Habsburg German lands and Württemberg. For more than three decades he was Charles’s deputy in German affairs, representing him at imperial diets and serving as president of the Reichsregiment (imperial governmental council).
Innsbruck, castle Ambras
Aggrieved, however, at Charles’s refusal to reinstate him in recaptured Württemberg and at the emperor’s attempts to ensure the succession of his son Philip (the future Philip II of Spain) to the imperial crown, Ferdinand began to take a more independent stand. The imperial heir since 1531, he was not finally placated until Charles agreed in 1553 to exclude Philip from the German succession, which then passed to Ferdinand’s son, the future Maximilian II. On the Protestant issue, Ferdinand, unlike Charles, eventually became convinced of the need for a compromise. In 1552 he negotiated the Treaty of Passau with the Lutheran elector Maurice of Saxony, who was at war with the emperor; and in 1555 he signed the Peace of Augsburg, which, with few interruptions, brought half a century of peace to Germany’s warring religious factions.
Wien Hofburg Neue Burg Heldenplatz. Emperor Ferdinand I was the first to establish dedicated premises to hold the Habsburg collections in the Vienna Hofburg and is thus regarded as the founder of the Kunstkammer.
Ferdinand took over Charles’s imperial functions in 1555 and was elected emperor in 1558 after his brother’s abdication. With his accession, the Habsburg domains became separated into more easily governable Austrian and Spanish parts, with Spain going to Philip and Germany to Ferdinand. The new emperor centralized his administration and, though only with limited success, sought to revive Roman Catholicism in his lands. His eldest son, Maximilian, succeeded him in 1564. Though always overshadowed by his brother Charles V, Ferdinand had become one of the most successful Habsburg rulers of the 16th century, increasing the hereditary possessions of the Austrian Habsburgs significantly and restoring peace to the empire after decades of religious warfare.
Source inter alia: Wikipedia
