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Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian II
(31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576), a member of the
Austrian
House of
Habsburg
, was
Holy Roman Emperor
from 1564 until his death. He was crowned King of
Bohemia
in
Prague
on 14 May 1562 and
elected
King of
Germany
(
King of the Romans
) on 24 November 1562. On 8 September 1563 he was crowned
King of Hungary
and
Croatia
in the Hungarian capital
Pressburg
(Pozsony in Hungarian; now Bratislava, Slovakia). On 25 July 1564 he succeeded his father
Ferdinand I
as ruler of the
Holy Roman Empire
.
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