# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-iii-holy-roman-emperor
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:47:35.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-iii-holy-roman-emperor"
name: "Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor"
slug: "ferdinand-iii-holy-roman-emperor"
description: "He inherited an empire at war and had to dismantle his own father's absolutist vision to get out of it — then turned to music, becoming the first Habsburg ruler anyone remembers as a composer."
tagline: "Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frans_Luycx_002_-_Emperor_Ferdinand_III.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1608-07-13"
deathDate: "1657-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.27041333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  221
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Singer / Musician"
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  - name: "Royalty"
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  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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    title: "Фердинанд III"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand III an Impalaeriezh Santel"
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    title: "Ferdinand III, car Svetog Rimskog Carstva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran_III_del_Sacre_Imperi_Romanogerm%C3%A0nic"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III%2C_Ymerawdwr_Gl%C3%A2n_Rhufeinig"
    title: "Ferdinand III, Ymerawdwr Glân Rhufeinig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III._(HRR)"
    title: "Ferdinand III. (HRR)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Φερδινάνδος Γ΄ της Αγίας Ρωμαϊκής Αυτοκρατορίας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_III.a_Germaniako_Erromatar_Inperio_Santukoa"
    title: "Fernando III.a Germaniako Erromatar Inperio Santukoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فردیناند سوم، امپراتور مقدس روم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand III (keisari)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ferdinand III (empereur du Saint-Empire)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fernando III de Habsburgo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פרדיננד השלישי, קיסר האימפריה הרומית הקדושה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5564581"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III._(HRR)"
    title: "Ferdinand III. (HRR)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرديناند الثالث (إمبراطور روماني مقدس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ferdinand Ernest was born 13 July 1608 and stepped into crowns young: Hungary and Croatia in 1625, Bohemia in 1627. By the time he became Holy Roman Emperor in 1637, the Thirty Years' War had ground into its final brutal decade. His father had ruled by divine right and intransigence; Ferdinand chose pragmatism, softening policies and abandoning Habsburg orthodoxy to chase peace. Military defeats narrowed his options. The road to the Peace of Westphalia was long and humbling, and when it arrived his imperial authority was diminished. But inside his hereditary lands — Bohemia, Hungary, Austria — he emerged stronger than any Habsburg before 1618. He also composed music, the first of his line to do so with enough skill that history noticed. He died 2 April 1657.