Sentence examples for emperor ferdinand from inspiring English sources

Instead, he empowered his brother Ferdinand (the future emperor Ferdinand I) to settle all questions.

As his uncle Emperor Ferdinand (I) was childless, Franz Joseph was educated as his heir-presumptive.

In Austria the emperor Ferdinand had abdicated in favour of his nephew Francis Joseph, who likewise relied on conservative ministers.

Nevertheless, following the death of Emperor Ferdinand, Leopold was finally elected (1658) after having conceded constitutional limitations that restricted his liberty of action in foreign politics.

Grumbach was consequently outlawed by the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand I, but John Frederick refused to withdraw his protection of him.

Donizetti had already been brought to the notice of the emperor Ferdinand I by his chancellor, Prince Metternich, and had conducted Rossini's Stabat Mater in his presence.

Maximilian, count von Trauttmansdorff, (born May 23 , 1584 Graz, Austria died June 8 , 1650 Vienna), Austrian statesman, confidant of the emperors Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, chief imperial plenipotentiary during the negotiations of the Peace of Westphalia, and one of the foremost political figures of early 17th-century Europe.

His successor, the conde de Oñate, negotiated the secret Treaty of Graz (1617) by which the Jesuit-educated archduke Ferdinand of Styria (later Emperor Ferdinand II) was designated as heir to Matthias.

The archdukes decided that the archduke Ferdinand of Styria (the future emperor Ferdinand II) should succeed Matthias, who was old, ill, and childless, as emperor.

During the 17th century, the Jesuits renamed the institution Charles-Ferdinand University after the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II, who placed the university under their control, but in the late 18th century, a period of Jesuit suppression, it became a state institution.

In 1637 Władysław married Cecilia Renata of Austria, sister of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III.