biography
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Ferdinand I (Emperor)
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1503–64)
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| biography:
| King of Bohemia and Hungary (1526), King of Germany (1531), and Holy Roman Emperor (from 1556). In 1521 he received the Austrian hereditary countries from his brother Charles V and appointed his representative and successor in Germany. He worked towards an agreement between Catholics and Protestants, the Augsburger Religionsfriede (1555). |
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