Status Updates From Danubia: A Personal History...

Chapter 6 ✅

- Dec 1666, marriage between Emperor Leopold I & Margarita Teresa, Spanish. Mariage between last two functioning Habsburg
- Great advantage of Habsburg is short supply chain within it's territory
- Leopold I is raised for priesthood
- A join coalition between Holy Roman Empire (under Leopold I) and multiple Euro powers expel Ottoman from Europe (Buda) in largest cavalry charge in history

Chapter 5 ✅
Rudolf/Mathias had no children, succeed by cousin Ferdinand of Styria
- Emperor Ferdinand II is a zealous Catholic
- Catholic vs Protestant
- End of Bohemia's sovereignty
- Czech was undermined in favor of German
- Thirty Years War
- Tradition of Emperors - financial recklessness & grand gesture to signal his power
- Hunting as aristocratic pasttime, but only performative
- Jesuit movement & belief

Chapter 5 ✅
- Rudolf/Mathias had no children, succeed by cousin Ferdinand of Styria
- Emperor Ferdinand II is a zealous Catholic
- Catholic vs Protestant
- Czech was undermined
- Thirty Years War
- Jesuit movement & belief

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Chapter 4 ✅

- glimpse of the Ottoman influence
- eccentricities of King Rudolph II
- collector of exotic fauna & rocks
- Prague as a center of mystery and intrigue in the 16th century
-town of Viscri