Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria from 1621, King of Hungary from 1625, King of Croatia and of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death. Ferdinand ascended the throne at the beginning of the last decade of the Thirty Years' War and introduced lenient policies to depart from the old ideas of divine rights under his father, as he had wished to end the war quickly. As the numerous battles had not resulted in sufficient military containment of the empire's Protestant enemies, and he was confronted with a decay of Imperial power, Ferdinand was compelled to abandon the political stances of his Habsburg predecessors in many respects to open the long road towards the much-delayed peace treaty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor has received more than 1,073,940 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is the 456th most popular politician (up from 503rd in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Austria (up from 51st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Politician.

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is most famous for being the Holy Roman Emperor from 1637-1657.