!!!Ferdinand Karl von Tirol, Erzherzog, geb. 1628

Ferdinand Karl of the Tyrol, b. May 17, 1628, 
d. Kaltern/Caldaro(South Tyrol), Dec. 30, 1662, Archduke, son of  
Leopold V. und  Claudia von Medici. After the Habsburgs had lost 
their possessions situated to the left of the Rhine (Sundgau, Alsace) 
and Breisach, he reigned over the Tyrol and the western domains, known 
as the Vorlande, from 1646-1662. He sold or pledged further goods or 
titles in order to finance his expensive life-style. As a prince he 
was a convinced proponent of absolutism, no longer convened the diet 
after 1648, had an entourage of intriguers, and ordered the execution 
of his chancellor, W.  Biener after a secret trial in 1651. During his 
reign the Swedish Queen Christina converted to Catholicism in the 
Innsbruck Hofkirche in 1655. In 1673 his daughter Claudia Felicitas 
became the second wife of Emperor Leopold I.

!Literature
B. Hamann (ed.), Die Habsburger, %%sup 4/%1993.



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