Article: Leopold I (Holy Roman Empire) (16401705; King of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1655; Holy Roman Emperor from 1658)

LEOPOLD I (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1640 1705; king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1655; Holy Roman emperor from 1658)

LEOPOLD I (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1640 1705; king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1655; Holy Roman emperor from 1658). The second surviving son of Emperor Ferdinand III (ruled 1637 1657), Archduke Leopold was destined by dynastic tradition to enter the church, where he could use the wealth and influence of high ecclesiastical office to further Habsburg dynastic interests in Europe. His older brother, the heir apparent, died in 1654, however, and Leopold, at age fourteen, had to take his brother's place and abandon clerical vows in order become the dynastic ...

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