The unhappy king, who, through the stormy scenes of his short life, had developed no grandeur of soul, was oppressed with the awfulness of passing to the final judgment.

In the ordinances of the Church he sought to find solace for a sinful and a troubled spirit.

Having received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, with dying lips he commenced repeating the Lord's prayer.

He had just uttered the words "deliver us from evil," when his spirit took its flight to the judgment seat of Christ.
Frederic, the emperor, Duke of Styria, was now the oldest lineal descendant of Rhodolph of Hapsburg, founder of the house of Austria.

The imperial dignity had now degenerated into almost an empty title.