Maximilian I Biography

Birth of Maximilian I, son of Frederick III.

Marries Mary of Burgundy

Signed between Louis XI & Maximilian of Austria. Louis XIs successor will marry Maximilians daughter bringing Burgundy to France. Louis XIs successor will marry Maximilians daughter bringing Artois to France

Succeeds as King of Germany, 1486-1519

Secures Bohemian & Hungarian successions for the Habsburgs

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Defends Burgundian lands from French attack

Takes Artois & Franche Comte from France

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Fights a war with France over the sovereignty of Milan & Naples

Provides financial support to Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne

The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the end of the Empire in 1806

The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the

and other dukes was now called the Imperial Diet (German Reichstag), Frederick refused, but his more conciliatory son finally convened the Diet at Worms in 1495, after his fathers death in 1493.

end of the Empire in 1806

The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the end of the Empire in 1806

The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the end of the Empire in 1806

The King and the Dukes agree on four bills, commonly referred to as the Reichsreform (Imperial Reform): a set of legal acts to give the disintegrating Empire back some structure which produces the Imperial Circle Estates and the Reichskammergericht (Imperial Chamber Court)that last until the end of the Empire in 1806

Convenes the Diet of Worms after Frederick III's death.

Defeared by the Swiss Confederacy leading to Swiss independence

Defeared by the Swiss Confederacy leading to Swiss independence

The Swiss & the French defeat the Emperor over a border dispute with Austria

Joins the League of Cambrai against Venice but fails to capture Padua

Joins the League of Cambrai against Venice but fails to capture Padua

Permission from the Pope to call himsel "Imperator Electus", now the official title

Calls himself Germaniae Rex", King of Germany, historically called the "First Reich"

In a decree following the 1512 Diet of Cologne, the name Holy Roman Empire is officially changed to Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation

Joins the Holy League against France as an ally of Henry VIII of England

Helps win the Battle of the Spurs against France

Defeated by Francis I & forced to cede Milan to the French

Defeated by Francis I & forced to cede Milan to the French

Death of Maximilian I

To create a union of Catholic states as a counterpart to the Protestant Union Maximilian starts negotiations with other Catholic princes

The Electors of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier had proposed an army of 20,000 men and they had also considered making Maximilian president of the alliance, and on August 30 they announce their adhesion to the Munich agreement

The Electors of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier had proposed an army of 20,000 men and they had also considered making Maximilian president of the alliance, and on August 30 they announce their adhesion to the Munich agreement

The Electors of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier had proposed an army of 20,000 men and they had also considered making Maximilian president of the alliance, and on August 30 they announce their adhesion to the Munich agreement

Maximilian becomes president, and the Prince-Bishops of Augsburg, Passau, and Wurzburg his councillors, the League will continue for nine years.

Participating states at a Munich conference conclude an alliance "for the defence of the Catholic religion and peace within the Empire".

This record states: The most important regulation of the League is the prohibition of attacks on one another, so instead of fighting, conflicts have to be decided by the laws of the Empire or, if these fail to resolve conflict.

This record states: by arbitration within the League.

Participating states at a Munich conference conclude an alliance "for the defence of the Catholic religion and peace within the Empire"

Maximilian becomes president, and the Prince-Bishops of Augsburg, Passau, and Wurzburg his councillors, the League will continue for nine years.

Participating states at a Munich conference conclude an alliance "for the defence of the Catholic religion and peace within the Empire".

This record states: The most important regulation of the League is the prohibition of attacks on one another, so instead of fighting, conflicts have to be decided by the laws of the Empire or, if these fail to resolve conflict.

This record states: by arbitration within the League.

Representatives of all the important Catholic states, except for Austria and Salzburg, and a great number of the smaller ones, meet decide the organisation, funding and arming of the League

Austria joins the Catholic League

Keeps the electoral dignity gained during the war.

Retains the Upper Palatinate in the peace settlement.

Maximilian keeps the electoral dignity gained during the war.

Bavaria keeps the Upper Palatinate gained during the war.

Faces post-war demobilisation and settlement obligations after the Peace of Westphalia.