Ferdinand III of Habsburg

Full name
	Ferdinand Ernst

Ferdinand III
Ferdinand III
	File:Jan van den Hoecke - Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand III.jpg Portrait by Jan van den Hoecke (1643)
Holy Roman Emperor
	18 November 1637 – 2 April 1657
	18 November 1637
Predecessor	Ferdinand II
Successor	Leopold I
Born	13 July 1608; Graz, Styria
Died	2 April 1657 (aged 48); Vienna, Austria
Burial	Imperial Crypt
Spouse	; Maria Anna of Austria (m. 1631; died 1646) ; Maria Leopoldine of Austria (m. 1648; died 1649) ; Eleonora Gonzaga; (m. 1651)
Issue	Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans; Mariana, Queen of Spain; Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor; Archduke Charles Joseph; Eleonore, Queen of Poland; Maria Anna Josepha, Electoral Princess of the Palatinate;
Full name
Full name
	Ferdinand Ernst
House	Habsburg
Father	Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Maria Anna of Bavaria
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Signature	Ferdinand III's signature

Ferdinand III (baptised as Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 in Graz – 2 April 1657 in Vienna) was Archduke of Austria from 1621, King of Hungary from 1625, King of Croatia and Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to 1657.

Biography

Early life

Ferdinand was born in Graz and grew up in Carinthia, he is the third son of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg. He gotten education and training from the Jesuits. After the deaths of his brothers Karl (1603) and Johann Karl (1619), he became the successor of his father.^[2]

Ferdinand III Of Habsburg Media

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Christoph Simon von Thun (1582-1635), teacher of young Ferdinand III
Diego Velázquez - Maria Anna of Spain - Prado.jpg

Portrait of Ferdinand's wife Maria Anna of Austria, by Diego Velázquez
Bevölkerkungsrückgang im HRRDN nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg.PNG

Population decline in the empire as a consequence of the Thirty Years War.
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Portrait by Frans Luycx, c. 1660-68
Ferdinand III, c. 1637–1638
Emperor Ferdinand III's sarcophagus in the Vienna Capuchin Crypt

References

↑ Ferdinand III., der Wiederhersteller der Prager Universität. Eine hist. Skizze. na. 1835. pp. 1–.
↑ Vacha, Brigitte, ed. (1992). Die Habsburger. Eine europäische Familiengeschichte. Wien: Styria. p. 221. ISBN 978-3222121074.

[books.google.com-1] Ferdinand III., der Wiederhersteller der Prager Universität. Eine hist. Skizze. na. 1835. pp. 1–.

[2] Vacha, Brigitte, ed. (1992). Die Habsburger. Eine europäische Familiengeschichte. Wien: Styria. p. 221. ISBN 978-3222121074.

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