Index
Terms which appear continually throughout the text are not indexed, e.g.
Catholic, Protestant, Habsburg, Bohemia, etc. For other frequent terms, where
long page ranges are shown the relevant item appears onalmostevery page.
Emperors are grouped under ‘E’, and their close relatives the Habsburg arch-
dukes likewise under ‘A’. Kings and other ruling princes are indexed according
to their territories, e.g. ‘Spain, Philip III, king of’. Other people are indexed
alphabetically by name in the usual way.
Aachen, 19, 30, 34, 38, 42, 43
Absolutism, 80, 229
Alsace, 1, 27, 59, 78, 111, 127, 201,
234
Amberg, 50
Anabaptists, 13
Angoulême, Charles de Valois, duke
of, 208–10
Anhalt-Bernburg, Christian I, prince
of, 26, 40, 43, 47, 49–51, 104, 108,
110, 121, 123, 169–72, 183 f.,
186 f., 196, 208, 214, 227
Anhalt-Bernburg, Christian II (the
Younger), prince of, 217, 219
Anna of Tyrol, wife of Emperor
Matthias, 125
Annales Ferdinandei, 144
Ansbach, Joachim Ernst, margrave of,
57, 160, 183, 187, 203 f., 206,
209, 221 f.
Ansbach, margravate of, 23, 40, 88,
169
Antwerp, 5
Apologiaof the Bohemian rebels, 115,
148, 152, 157
Aragon, Ferdinand II, king of, 3
Archduchess Isabella, regent of the
Netherlands, 87, 89, 241, 252
Archduke Albrecht, regent of the
Netherlands, 26–28, 87, 89, 95,
98, 120, 125 f., 129, 178, 190,
194, 199, 201 f., 205, 207, 209 f.,
222, 230, 249, 252
Archduke Ernst, brother of Rudolf II,
88, 91
Archduke Ferdinand, son of Ferdinand
I, 86
Archduke Karl Joseph, brother of
Ferdinand II, 96
Archduke Karl of Burgau, cousin of
Rudolf II, 125
Archduke Karl of Inner Austria, son of
Ferdinand I, 83, 86
Archduke Leopold, brother of
Ferdinand II, 25–29, 54, 59, 62,
96, 110–14, 111–14, 160, 188
Archduke Maximilian Ernst, brother
of Ferdinand II, 96, 98
Archduke Maximilian, brother of
Matthias and Rudolf II, 38, 55 f.,
88 f., 95, 98, 125–27, 129, 160 f.,
187
Artillery, 162 f., 180, 201, 212, 235–37
Augsburg Confession, 12, 16, 19, 20,
44 f., 76, 82, 171
Augsburg Interim, 12
Augsburg, bishop and bishopric of, 22,
53, 56, 203
Augsburg, city, 12, 51, 233
Augsburg, peace of, 13–19, 21–23, 34,
44, 79, 86, 251, 262
Auhausen, secularised monastery
of, 23
Austria, Further, Habsburg province
of, 78, 86
Austria, Inner, Habsburg province of,
79, 83–86, 125, 127284