Rudolf Ii

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Rudolf Ii

Key facts

Predecessor	Maximilian II
Successor	Matthias
Born	18 July 1552, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Age at death	59 years
Died	January 20, 1612, Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire
Burial	St. Vitus Cathedral
Issue, more...	Don Julius Caesar d'Austria (ill.)
House	Habsburg

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Rudolf II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria. He was a member of the House of Habsburg. Rudolf's legacy has traditionally been viewed in three ways: an ineffectual ruler whose mistakes led directly to the Thirty Years' War; a great and influential patron of Northern Mannerist art; and an intellectual devotee of occult arts and learning which helped seed what would be called the Scientific Revolution. Determined to unify Christendom, he initiated the Long Turkish War with the Ottoman Empire. Exhausted by war, his citizens in Hungary revolted in the Bocskai Uprising, which led to more authority being given to his brother Matthias. Under Rudolf's reign, there was a policy of tolerance towards Judaism.

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