Birth of Ferdinand III
2021-07-13 Tue
Ferdinand III was the Holy Roman Emperor, reigning from 1637 until his death in 1657 AD. He was a king of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria as well.Ferdinand was born today in the year 1608, to Emperor Ferdinand II and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Ferdinand III was elected king of Hungary in 1625 and crowned the king of Bohemia in 1627. The energetic and able Ferdinand took part in ministerial councils and affairs of state from 1626. He headed the peace party at the Hapsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
The above shown 1 Thaler, which issued in 1638 from Saint Veit mint (Carinthia), depicted the bust of Ferdinand III on its obverse face.
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