Ferdinand II (1 janv. 1616 – 1 janv. 0)
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Drastically reduced power of the largely protestant Bohemian Estates. Took landholdings of the Protestant nobles and gave them to loyal Catholic nobles and mercenaries. With his new rule, the Habsburgs established direct rule over Bohemia, where conditions of the enserfed peasantry worsened and Protestantism was burned out.
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