Ferdinand II
From Conservapedia
Ferdinand II (1578 - 1637) was the eldest son of archduke Karl and the Barvarian Princess Maria Ferdinand and was King of Bohemia from 1617 and Hungary from 1618, then became the Holy Roman Emperor from 1619 when he succeeded his uncle Matthias. He studied under the Jesuits at Graz, and at the University of Ingolstadt.
A zealous Catholic, Ferdinand provoked the Bohemian revolt that led to the Thirty Years' War in his attempts to remove Protestantism from his lands.[1] He was a grandson of Ferdinand I.
