coronation of, 224.
marriage of, 225.
suspicions of the Catholics against, 229.
elected Emperor of Germany, 229.
thwarted in his attempts to levy an army, 230.
concludes a truce with Turkey, 231.
his revival of the ban against the Protestants, 231.
efforts of to secure the crown of Germany for Ferdinand, 232.
opposed by the Protestants, 233.
defiant reply of to the congress at Prague, 236.
disposition of to favor toleration, 239.
death of, 344.

MAURICE (of Saxony), Protestant principles of, 131.
treaty of with the King of France, 132
capture of the Tyrol by, 133.
demands of from Charles V., 135
death of, 137.

MAXIMILIAN I., ambition of, 84.
efforts of to rouse the Italians, 88.
efforts to secure the Swiss estates, 89.
defeat of at the diet of Worms, 87.
roused to new efforts, 92.
superstitious fraud of, 93.
drawn into a war with Bavaria, 94.
league formed by against the Venetians, 95.
abandoned by his allies, 97.
perseverance of rewarded, 98.
confident of success against Italy, 99.
letter of to his daughter, 99.
success beginning to attend, 100.
plans of to secure the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia, 101.
contempt of for the pope, 103.
peculiarities of exhibited, 103.
death of, 104.
accomplishments of, 105.

MAXIMILIAN II. allowed to assume the title of emperor elect, 161.
character of, 169.
his letter to the Elector Palatine, 170.
profession of the Catholic faith, 170.
address of to Henry of Valois, 172.
liberal toleration maintained by, 172.
answer of to the complaints of the diet, 173.
offer of to pay tribute to the Turks, 174.
elected King of Poland, 180.
death of, 181.
character and acquirements of, 182.
tribute of honor by the ambassadors to, 183.
wife of, 183.
fate of his children, 184.

MAXIMILIAN (brother of Matthias), the candidate of the Protestants, 229.

MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH, ascends the throne of Bavaria, 451.

MEINHARD, legitimate rights of, 50.
death of, 50.

MELANCTHON, character of, 119.

MENTZ, taunts of the Elector of, 38.

METTERNICH, his theory of social order, 506.

METZ, siege of, 137.

MILAN, captured by Louis XII., 90.
Louis XII. created Duke of, 90.

MINISTER (see the countries for which the minister acted).

MOHATZ, battle of, 146.

MOLNITZ, the court of Frederic established at, 421.

MONTECUCULI (Prince), commander of the troops of Leopold, 311.

MONTSERRAT,