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Maximilian II 1527-76
Holy Roman Emperor
Born in Vienna, the eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, he became King of Bohemia (1548), King of Hungary (1563) and Holy Roman Emperor (1564). An intelligent, tolerant and cultivated man who considered himself 'neither Catholic nor Protestant but a Christian', he embarrassed his family by his Protestant leanings and was obliged (1562) to swear to live and die within the Catholic Church. As emperor he secured considerable religious freedom for Austrian Lutherans and deplored the intolerance of the Catholic reaction in Spain and France. Abroad, he fought unsuccessfully against the Turks, and continued to pay them tribute. A patron of the arts and sciences, he set out to make Vienna a centre of European intellectual life.
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