Matthias and the Escalation of Imperial Crisis

Matthias

Holy Roman Emperor from the House of Habsburg. Born as the third son of Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain, he served as Archduke of Austria from 1608, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 to 1618, King of Bohemia from 1611 to 1617, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 to 1619. In his opposition to his elder brother, Rudolf II, he unified rival factions within the Habsburg family, forcing Rudolf to yield control over Hungary, Austria, and Moravia in 1608, and acquiring the crown of Bohemia in 1611. In 1606, he was instrumental in concluding the Peace of Vienna with Hungarian rebels and the Treaty of Zsitvatorok with the Ottoman Empire. After ascending the imperial throne, he came under the strong influence of Cardinal Melchior Klesl. In his later years, religious and political conflicts escalated in Bohemia, leading to the Bohemian Revolt of 1618 and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War.

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Year	Matthias
1557	Birth of Matthias (Period: February 24, 1557, Location: Vienna)
1568	Eighty Years' War (Age: 10 years old, Period: 1578–1581, Location: Various parts of the Low Countries, Spanish Netherlands, Dutch Republic, etc.)
1578	Appointment as Governor of the Netherlands (Matthias, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1578–1581, Location: Low Countries) Assignment to the Netherlands (Matthias, Age: 20 years old, Period: 1578, Location: Low Countries)
1579	Union of Utrecht and Policy of Religious Tolerance (Age: 21 years old, Period: 1579, Location: Utrecht)
1595	Establishment of Position as Successor in the Austrian Habsburg Lands (Matthias, Age: 37 years old, Period: 1595, Location: Austria)
1600	Beginning of Conflict Among the Habsburg Brothers (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1600–1606, Location: Austria, Hungary, Prague) Anti-Rudolf Alliance Within the House of Habsburg (Age: 43 years old, Period: November 1600, Location: Schottwien (present-day Lower Austria))
1606	Peace Negotiations in Hungary (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1606, Location: Hungary, Vienna) Peace of Vienna (Age: 49 years old, Period: June 23, 1606, Location: Vienna) Conclusion of the Treaty of Zsitvatorok (Age: 49 years old, Period: November 11, 1606, Location: Zsitvatorok (around present-day Radvaň nad Dunajom, Slovakia))
1608	Transfer of Control from Rudolf II (Matthias, Age: 50 years old, Period: 1608, Location: Vienna, Hungary, Austria, Moravia) Accession as King of Hungary and Croatia (Matthias, Age: 50 years old, Period: 1608, Location: Pressburg (present-day Bratislava), etc.)
1611	Succession to the Bohemian Throne (Matthias, Age: 54 years old, Period: May 23, 1611, Location: Prague) Accession as King of Bohemia (Matthias, Age: 54 years old, Period: May 23, 1611, Location: Prague) Marriage (Matthias, Anna of Tyrol, Age: 54 years old, Period: December 4, 1611, Location: Augustinian Church, Vienna)
1612	Relocation of the Court from Prague to Vienna (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1612 onward, Location: Prague, Vienna) Election and Coronation as Holy Roman Emperor (Matthias, Age: 55 years old, Period: June 1612, Location: Frankfurt am Main)
1618	Thirty Years' War (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1618–1648, Location: Central Europe centered on regions of the Holy Roman Empire, Low Countries, etc.) Outbreak of the Bohemian Revolt (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1618, Location: Prague, Bohemia) Bohemian Revolt and the Defenestration of Prague (Age: 61 years old, Period: May 1618, Location: Prague)
1619	Death of Matthias (Age: 62 years old, Period: March 20, 1619)

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Roman Empire	Rudolf II Matthias Ferdinand II Ferdinand Ernst Leopold I Charles VI Maria Theresa
Habsburg Family	Leopold Felician Prince Eugene Kara Mustafa Pasha Jan Sobieski Charles V
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