biography
pronunciation:
[mateeas]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1557–1619)
|
| biography:
| Holy Roman Emperor, born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Emperor Maximilian II of Austria. He was Statthalter of Austria and head of the House of Habsburg (1606). Commander-in-chief in the Turkish Wars (1594–5, 1598–1601), in 1601 he concluded a ceasefire agreement with the Turks and the rebellious Hungarians. The estates of Hungary, Austria, and Moravia allied themselves with him against his brother Emperor Rudolf II in 1608, and in 1611 Matthias gained the Bohemian crown. He became Holy Roman Emperor in 1612, but failed to achieve a compromise with the Bohemia Protestants and died the year after the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. He was succeeded by Ferdinand II. |
|
|
