Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph I
Portrait by Frans van Stampart, c. 1705
Holy Roman Emperor (more...)
Reign	5 May 1705 – 17 April 1711
Predecessor	Leopold I
Successor	Charles VI
Born	(1678-07-26)26 July 1678 Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died	17 April 1711(1711-04-17) (aged 32) Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Burial	Imperial Crypt, Vienna
Spouse	Wilhelmine Amalie of Brunswick ​ ​ (m. 1696)​
Issue	Maria Josepha, Queen of Poland Archduke Leopold Joseph Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress
Names German: Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius[1]
House	House of Habsburg
Father	Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg
Religion	Roman Catholicism
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Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg. Joseph was crowned King of Hungary at the age of nine in 1687 and was elected King of the Romans at the age of eleven in 1690. He succeeded to the thrones of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire when his father died.

Joseph continued the War of the Spanish Succession, begun by his father against Louis XIV of France, in an attempt to make his younger brother Charles (later Emperor Charles VI) King of Spain. In the process, however, owing to the victories won by his military commander, Prince Eugene of Savoy, he did succeed in establishing Austrian hegemony over Italy. Joseph also had to contend with a protracted revolt in Hungary, fomented by Louis XIV. Neither conflict was resolved until the Treaty of Utrecht, after his death.

His motto was Amore et Timore (Latin for "Through Love and Fear").^[2]