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Emperor Maximilian I (c. 1519)
Maximilian I (b. 1459, r. 1486/93-1519) reigned over the Holy Roman Empire during the age of political reform, which began at the Diet of Worms in 1495. Woodcut by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), c. 1519.