Maximilian II
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In 1570, he went to work for Pope Pius V. Three years after the pope’s death, in 1572, Spranger went to Vienna to serve the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian II, who died in 1576.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2014
Philip III. set up pretensions to Hungary and Bohemia, as grandson of Maximilian II.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
Reform being refused, tumults arose in 1848, and Ludwig resigned in favour of his son, Maximilian II, under whom certain modifications of the constitution were carried out.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
Charles IX in 1572 had nine dwarfs, of which four had been given to him by King Sigismund-Augustus of Poland and three by Maximilian II of Germany.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
They were striving now for the recognition, not of their own Confession of Faith, but of the general Bohemian Protestant Confession presented to the Emperor, Maximilian II.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund
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