Maximilian I (1459-1519)
Subtitle: an analytical biography
By: Gerhard Benecke.
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519; Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Germany -- History -- Maximilian I, 1493-1519
Description: "Maximilian I (22 March 1459 ? 12 January 1519), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky. He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483. He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, but he also lost the Austrian territories in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy."--Wikipedia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.