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Key

The emperor and the Habsburgs The Bohemian estates and the Palatine cause Bavaria and the Catholic League Saxony Sweden France bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Rudolf II — Wikipedia (Prague court, the Bocskai rising, loss of Hungary, Austria, Moravia and Bohemia to Matthias, the 1648 looting of his collections) — source
  2. Stephen Bocskai — Wikipedia (rising of 1604, Kassa, Peace of Vienna 23 June 1606, Zsitvatorok) — source
  3. Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor — Wikipedia (archdukes' declaration of 1606, march on Prague, Lieben, coronation 1611) — source
  4. Rudolfův majestát — Czech Wikipedia (the Letter of Majesty, 9 July 1609) — source
  5. Pražská defenestrace (1618) — Czech Wikipedia (Broumov and Hrob, the banned assembly, the thirty directors) — source
  6. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor — Wikipedia (Khlesl's arrest, election 28 Aug 1619, Treaty of Munich, executions of 1621) — source
  7. Albrecht von Wallenstein — Wikipedia (Friedland, the 1625 army, Dessau, Mecklenburg, Stralsund, dismissal and murder) — source
  8. Diet of Regensburg (1630) — Wikipedia (Wallenstein dismissed 13 August, the son not elected) — source
  9. Assassination of Wallenstein — Wikipedia (Pilsen, Butler's dragoons, the supper at Eger, 25 Feb 1634) — source
  10. Peace of Prague (1635) — Wikipedia (Trauttmansdorff, Lusatia, the Edict set aside, one imperial army) — source
  11. Westphalia, Treaty of — Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911): Alsace and Breisach, Pomerania and Bremen-Verden, the eighth electorate, the princes' alliances — source
  12. Rheinischer Bund (1658) — German Wikipedia (Schönborn's league of 14 August 1658, France, Leopold's capitulation) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

The Holy Roman Empire, 1600–1660

How did a quarrel among Habsburg brothers become thirty years of war, and what did the peace leave the emperor?
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