RHODOLPH III.

AND MATTHIAS.
From 1609 to 1612.
Difficulties as to the Succession .-- Hostility of Henry IV.

to the House of Austria .-- Assassination of Henry IV .-- Similarity in Sully's and Napoleon's Plans .-- Exultation of the Catholics .-- The Brother's Compact .-- How Rhodolph kept it .-- Seizure of Prague .-- Rhodolph a Prisoner .-- The King's Abdication .-- Conditions Attached to the Crown .-- Rage of Rhodolph .-- Matthias Elected King .-- The Emperor's Residence .-- Rejoicings of The Protestants .-- Reply of the Ambassadors .-- The Nuremberg Diet .-- The Unkindest cut of all .-- Rhodolph's Humiliation and Death.

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