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Aachen, imperial city 104, 112 armies Aachen, Hans van 327, 329, 351–2, 355, administration 240, 246–7, 264, 284 359 cartography 266–7 Abrahamson, Werner 304–5 command 82, 254–5, 287 absolutism 20, 70–1, 239, 287, 923, 299, German 70, 241, 244–8, 284 305, 310 Hungarian 264–9 Aeneas 63 imperial 28, 31, 79, 82–3, 182, 241, Africa 3, 344 245–8 Afterlehen, see subfeuds interpretations 190, 201 Agincourt, battle (1415) 81 Polish 243–4, 248–57, 287 Aichel, Jan Blasius Santini 318 Prussian 194–5, 198–9, 240–1, 246, 369 Aix la Chapelle, treaty (1748) 369 regulations 269 Alba, bishopric 229, 233 religion in 25 Alba, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, duke Savoyard 195–9 of 210–11, 351 Spanish 31, 33, 81–2, 84, 210 Albert, archduke and governor of the Swedish 23, 31–3 Netherlands 1598–1621 81–4, 89 see also hussars, taxation, weapons Albert II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, aristocracy see nobility, titles and emperor 1438–9 259–60 Arras 81–2 Albertine Wettins, see Wettin dynasty arsenals 270 Albrecht IV von Brandenburg, archbishop Artois 80, 87, 316 of Magdeburg 1513–45 325 Arundel, Thomas Howard earl of 365 Aleppo 348 Asbach, Olaf 36 Alexander the Great, king of Macedon Aschaffenburg 325 336–323BC 66–7, 189 Asia 336 almanacs 60 Asti 195, 223, 229, 232 Alsace 3, 26, 316 Auersperg family 144–5, 148, 159 Altdorfer, Albrecht 317, 327 Auersperg, Johann Weikhard von 30, 164 Althan family 102 Augsburg, imperial city 265, 270–1, 274, Altona 295 324–7, 338–9, 341 Altranstädt, treaty (1707) 286 Augsburg, treaty (1548) 80, 204, 208–11, Amalia, margravine of Baden 65 214–15 Amsterdam 27, 341 Augsburg, treaty [not peace?] (1555) 6, Angielini, Nicolò 266 21, 209 Anhalt-Zerbst, principality 5 August, elector of Saxony 1553–86 266, Anna of Tyrol, empress of Matthias 356 328 Annaberg 317, 326 Augustus II (‘the Strong’), elector of Anne of Hungary and Bohemia, empress Saxony 1694–1733 and king of Poland of Ferdinand I 334–5, 341 1697–1733 242, 257, 281–9 Ansbach see Brandenburg-Ansbach Augustus III, elector of Saxony and king of Antwerp 342–3, 348, 365–6 Poland 1733–63 281, 288–9 Aosta 191 Augustyniak, Urszula 252 archchancellor 101, 104, 110–11, 156–7 Aulic Chancellery, Hungarian (Cancellaria Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 327 Hungarica Aulica) 275 Arese, Carlo Borromeo 220 Aulic Council, imperial see Reichshofrat Aretin, Karl Otmar Freiherr von 171, 218 Aulic War Council (Hofkriegsrat), see Argenteau family 88 Court War Council 386 index

Austerlitz, battle (1805) 7, 59–60 and Empire 11, 13, 108, 121–41, 145–9, Austria 70 151–65, 172–3, 181, 183, 260, 315 and France 370 estates in 124–8, 130, 146, 149–50, hereditary provinces 7, 13, 169, 316 153–4, 158, 163 population 271 judiciary 126 and Prussia 8, 248, 369–71 nobility 87–9, 127–8, 143–65 see also Habsburg monarchy, Vienna population 263, 271 Austrian Kreis 132, 174 revolt 84–7, 153, 241, 253, 358 Austrian Succession, war (1740–8) 130, size 263 176, 369 territories 3, 124 Austro-Prussian War (1866) 8, 132, 202 see also Hussites Avaux, Claude de Mesmes count de 32 Boisserée, Sulpiz 68 border, see Military Frontier Bachmann, Georg 359 Bosnia 260, 263 Baden, margraviate 7, 144–5, 149, 155 Bouillon, duchy 27 Baden-Durlach, margraviate 22 Bozzolo 318 balance of power 33–4, 36–7, 42, 44, Brabant 209 46–7, 49 Brandenburg, electorate 7, 183 Bamberg 328 court 104, 330–1 banking 265, 270, 340–1 and Empire 54, 101, 129, 155, 179 Bapaume 81 and France 27 Barbosa, Duarte 346 and Sweden 21, 23 Barcelona 29 see also Hohenzollerns, Prussia Basle 2, 337 Brandenburg-Ansbach, margraviate 148, Basle, treaty (1795) 69, 192 152 Bastille 54 Brandenburg-Bayreuth, margraviate 162 battles, see individual entries Bratislava (Pressburg, Pozsony) 182, 272, Batthyány family 276 279 Bavaria, duchy, later (1623) electorate Brazil 28, 345 and (1806) kingdom 23, 183, 194, 245, Breslau bishop of 143, 159 370 Bretholz, Bertold 137 court 319, 331 Breuer, Peter 326 electoral title 102, 108 Brewer, John 239 and Empire 52, 65, 79, 127–8 Brieg, duchy 152, 159 and France 27, 29 Britain 5, 19–20, 249, 282, 369 see also Wittelsbachs imperial ambitions 350 Bayreuth see Brandenburg-Bayreuth see also Hanover Belgium 3, 316 Brno 25 Belvedere 228 Bruderzwist (Brothers’ Quarrel) 32, 89, 358 Benecke, Gerhard 243 Bruegel the Elder, Pieter 327 Benrath 331 Brunswick-Lüneburg, duchy 7, 102 [→ B] Berlin 319, 330 Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, duchy 5 Bernhard von Cles, cardinal, bishop of Brussels 82, 180 Trent 1514–39 341[→ Cles?] Buczacz, treaty (1672) 283 Bernstorff, A.P. 302–3 Buda, town 206, 262, 266 Bernstorff, Johann Hartwig Ernst 300 Bugey 191 Bianca Maria Sforza, empress of Bulgaria 260 Maximilian I 341 Buquoy family 87–9 Bireley, Robert 168–9 Buquoy, Charles Bonaventura de Bismarck, Otto von 9 Longueville count de 79–89 Bodin, Jean 35, 187 Burgundian booty 337–9 Bohemia, kingdom 344 Burgundian Kreis 80, 82, 89, 174, 204–6, constitution 168 208–9