FERDINAND (of Austria) invested with the government of the Austrian
States, 113.
determines to arrest Protestantism, 114.
assumes some impartiality, 116.
chosen King of the Romans, 120.
Bohemia and Hungary added to his kingdom, 146.
demands the restitution of Belgrade, 146.
his siege of Buda, 153.
tribute of to the Turks, 153.
his attempts to weaken the power of the Hungarian nobles, 155.
conditions of his pardon of the Hungarian nobles, 157.
his punishment of the revolters, 158.
his establishment of the Jesuits in Bohemia, 158.
his inconsistencies, 158.
obtains the crown of Germany, 161.
opposed by the pope, 162.
elected Emperor of Germany, 233.
character of, 234.
rich spoils of, 273.
he assembles a diet at Eatisbon, 275.
perplexity of in regard to the demands of the diet, 277.

FERDINAND (King of Arragon) furnishes supplies for the war against the
Venetians, 95.

FERDINAND (of Naples), flight of to Ischia, 85.

FERDINAND (King of the Romans)
crowned at Ratisbon, 302.
his death, 302.

FERDINAND I.
illustrious birth of, 145.
marriage of, 145.
efforts of to unite Protestants and Catholics, 164.
attempts of to prevent the spread of Protestantism, 167.
the founder of the Austrian empire, 168.
death of, 168.

FERDINAND II.
manifesto of, 240.
abduction of Cardinal Kleses by, 242.
troops of defeated by the Protestants, 243.
refers the complaints of the Protestants to arbitration, 343.
unpopularity of with the Catholics, 247.
unexpected rescue of, 249.
elected King of Germany, 250.
concludes an alliance with Maximilian, 254.
secures the cooeperation of the Elector of Saxony and Louis XIII., 256.
subdues Austria, 257.
barbarity of the troops of, 258.
vengeance of, 263.
meeting at Ratisbon to approve the acts of, 265.
victories of, 268.
capture of the duchies of Mecklenburg, 268.
seizes Pomerania, 268.
revokes all concessions to the Protestants, 270.
son of crowned King of Bohemia, 271.
manifesto of against Gustavus Adolphus, 283.
decorous appreciation of to the memory of Gustavus Adolphus, 296.
outwitted by a Capuchin friar, 279.
succeeds in securing the election of his son Ferdinand, 299.
his death, 299.

FERDINAND III.
ascends the throne, 245.
his proposal for a truce with Prague, 246.
desire of for peace, 300.
succeeds in securing the election of his son as Ferdinand King of t