Article: Matthias (Holy Roman Empire) (15571619; Ruled 16121619)

MATTHIAS (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1557 1619; ruled 1612 1619)

MATTHIAS (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1557 1619; ruled 1612 1619). The younger son of Maximilian II, Matthias served as governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands, 1578 1581, governor of Upper and Lower Austria (1593), king of Hungary (1608), and king of Bohemia (1611). He married Anna of Tyrol (1585 1618) in 1611.

In 1872, a play by the Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer, Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, premiered in Vienna. This play immortalized the conflict between the Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II and his younger brother, Matthias, and in some ways marks the high point of the received ...

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