Maximilian I Biography and Timeline

Birth of Maximilian I

Birth of Maximilian I, son of Frederick III.

Role range: 1493-1519

Marriage

Marries Mary of Burgundy

Role range: 1493-1519

Treaty of Arras

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Succession

Succeeds as King of Germany, 1486-1519

Role range: 1493-1519

Treaty of Pressburg

Secures Bohemian & Hungarian successions for the Habsburgs

Role range: 1493-1519

Holy Roman Emperor

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Role range: 1493-1519

Invasion of Burgundy

Defends Burgundian lands from French attack

Role range: 1493-1519

Peace

Takes Artois & Franche Comte from France

Role range: 1493-1519

Succession

Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor

Role range: 1493-1519

Declaration of War

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Diet of Worms

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Alliance Maximilian I and to Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Constitution of Germany

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Holy Roman Empire

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Holy Roman Empire

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.

Role range: 1493-1519

Holy Roman Empire

end of the Empire in 1806

Role range: 1493-1519

Legislation

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Reichskammergericht

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Reichsreform

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Battle of Dornach

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

Independence of Germany

Defeared by the Swiss Confederacy leading to Swiss independence

Role range: 1493-1519

Independence of Switzerland

Defeared by the Swiss Confederacy leading to Swiss independence

Role range: 1493-1519

League of Cambrai

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Siege of Padua

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Succession

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Unification

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Diet of Cologne

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Alliance Maximilian I and Holy League

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Battle of Spurs

Helps win the Battle of the Spurs against France

Role range: 1482-1503 – 1493-1519

Battle of Melegnano

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Holy Roman Empire

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

Role range: 1493-1519

Death of Maximilian I

Death of Maximilian I

Role range: 1493-1519

Catholic League

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

Catholic League

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

Diet of Munich

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

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

Catholic League

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

Catholic League

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

Catholic League

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.

Catholic League

by arbitration within the League.