!!!Ferdinand II. von Tirol, geb. 1529

b. Linz (Upper Austria), June 14, 1529, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Jan. 24, 1595, Archduke of Austria; son of 
Emperor  Ferdinand I., 1547-1566 Governor in Bohemia. When the 
territories were divided between the heirs in 1564, he was endowed 
with the Tyrol and the western domains, known as the Vorlande, where 
he reigned from 1567. He carried out the  Counter-Reformation, 
resorted to rigorous measures against the Anabaptists, initiated 
legislative and administrative reforms. Enlarged  Ambras Castle, where 
he established a "Cabinet of Works of Art and Curiosities". Although 
highly educated, he was a spendthrift at the same time and contracted 
great debts. Since his children from his marriage to Philippine  
Welser (1557) were not entitled to inherit, the Tyrol went to the 
other two lines of the Habsburg dynasty after his death.

!Literature
Hispania - Austria, exhibition catalogue, Innsbruck 1992.



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