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Austria 1632 Taler
« on: January 06, 2011, 02:11:20 PM »
Archduke Leopold 1632 Taler.

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (Wiener Neustadt January 5, 1614 -Vienna November 20, 1662), was a military commander, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1647 to 1656, and a patron of the arts.
He was the youngest son of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574–1616), daughter of William V, Duke of Bavaria. His elder brother became Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657). Leopold served as general in the Thirty Years' War. Even though Leopold Wilhelm lacked the theological qualification he was invested - with the help of his father - with a number of prince-bishoprics in order to provide him with a truly princely income. Unqualified as he was, he officially only held the title administrator - nevertheless realising the full episcopal revenues - of the prince-bishopric of Halberstadt (1628–1648), the prince-bishopric of Passau (1625–1662), the prince-archbishopric of Breslau (1656–1662), prince-bishopric of Olmütz (1637–1662) and the prince-bishopric of Strasbourg (1626–1662). In 1635 Pope Urban VIII provided him to become the prince-archbishop of Bremen, but due to its occupation by the Swedes he never gained de facto power.
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