31) Ferdinand III, Holy Roman emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Ferdinand's accession, however, the war took a disastrous turn. Although anxious for peace, Ferdinand rejected the early peace proposals, but in 1648 he had to assent...
32) Rakoczy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...entered with Zrinyi into an unsuccessful conspiracy against Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. Francis II Rakoczy, 1676-1735, son of Francis I and of Helen Zrinyi, became...
33) Spanish Succession, War of the. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...XIV, in behalf of his eldest son, a grandson of King Philip IV of Spain through Philip's daughter, Marie Therese, to whom Louis XIV had been married; the electoral...
34) Conrad III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to Lothair in 1135. After Lothair's death he was elected king by the nobles and ecclesiastics who were afraid to increase the power of Lothair's son-in-law, Henry...
35) Saxe-Coburg. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Great Britain (where the name was changed to Windsor during World War I). Ernest II, son of Leopold I, sided with Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. He...
36) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and by the composition of La Clemenza di Tito (1791), an opera seria for the coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia. 9After the production of Die Zauberflote,...
37) Anhalt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...members of the house of Anhalt were Leopold I, prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, who was empress of Russia as Catherine II....
38) Hohenzollern, former province, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...royal title as Carol I; his successors in Romania were Ferdinand, Carol II, and Michael. The candidature (1870) of Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to the Spanish...
39) abdication. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...abdication of many rulers, most notably Emperor William II of Germany, Farouk of Egypt, and Leopold III of Belgium....
40) Netherlands, Austrian and Spanish. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Joseph and proclaimed the republic of the United States of Belgium. Joseph's successor, Leopold II, succeeded in conciliating the States-General, which in 1790 elected...
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