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- In 1461, in the midst of a bitterly contested succession, John II named him heir apparent and governor of all his kingdoms and lands. Ferdinand’s future was assured when he came of age, in 1466, and when he was named king of Sicily, in 1468, in order to impress the court of Castile, where his father ultimately wished to place him.
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Ferdinand II, king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I. He united the Spanish kingdoms into the nation of Spain and began Spain’s entry into the modern period of imperial expansion. Read and learn more about Ferdinand II here.
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Ferdinand II, Holy Roman emperor (1619–37), archduke of Austria, king of Bohemia (1617–19, 1620–27), and king of Hungary (1618–25). He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist rule during the Thirty Years’ War.
Leopold invaded Bohemia in February 1611, but the troops of the Bohemian Estates defeated him. [73][74] The Bohemian Estates dethroned Rudolph and elected Matthias king on 23 May 1611. [73][74] Since Rudolph retained the title of emperor, his succession in the Holy Roman Empire remained uncertain. [73]
In 1479, he succeeded his father, John II, as King of Aragon, uniting the two crowns under one royal family. While Castile and Aragon remained separate kingdoms with their own laws, Ferdinand and Isabella worked together to centralize their power.
Ferdinand II, known as Ferdinand the Catholic Spanish Fernando el Católico, (born March 10, 1452, Sos, Aragon—died Jan. 23, 1516), King of Aragon from 1479, king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1474 (joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I until 1504), king of Sicily (as Ferdinand II, 1468–1516), and king of Naples (as Ferdinand III, 1503 ...
Ferdinand II was a member of the House of Habsburg and served as the Holy Roman Emperor (1619–1637), the king of Bohemia (1617–1619 and 1620–1637), and the king of Hungary (1618–1637). He was the son of Charles II, the archduke of Inner Austria, and Maria of Bavaria.
May 8, 2018 · At the electoral convention of Regensburg in 1636, he secured the election of his son, Ferdinand III, as king of the Romans, which prepared the way for his succession as Holy Roman emperor. Ferdinand II died in Vienna on 15 February 1637 after returning from Regensburg.
