Maximilian I was German emperor. He was born in 1459 at Vienna and died in 1519. He was the son of Frederick III and in 1477 married Mary, the heiress of Burgundy, and in 1493 succeeded Frederick as emperor. Six years later the Swiss established their independence of the empire. Maximilian joined the League of Cambrai against Venice in 1508, and later the Holy League, but gained nothing by doing so. He is chiefly remembered for his efforts to reform the imperial and Austrian administrations. he established the public peace, he divided the empire for administrative purposes into ten circles, and he instituted the imperial chamber and the Aulic Council as supreme tribunals for the empire and Austria respectively. Research Maximilian I
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