The Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II was in many respects an exemplary ... In part this is because of his responsibility for the Thirty Years’ War, which he did not cause but helped to prolong.

Ferdinand II’s coronation turned the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48), until then a series of armed scuffles between rival aristocrats and their militias, often over local issues (in one notorious ...

Dame Veronica Wedgwood sketches the profile of Awesome Adolphus, King of Sweden, Lion of the North and the scourge of Emperor Ferdinand at the height of the War ... was thirty-six years old.

The war had religious roots as the Holy Roman Emperor (initially the Habsburg Ferdinand II ... than it seemed after 2003. After the Thirty Years War ended in 1648, Habsburg influence over much ...