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Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1625, King of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death.

Ferdinand ascended the throne at the beginning of the last decade of the Thirty Years' War and introduced lenient policies to depart from the old ideas of divine right held by his father, as he wished to end the war quickly. After military defeats and against a background of declining power, Ferdinand was compelled to abandon the political stances of his Habsburg predecessors in many respects to open the long road towards the much-delayed Peace of Westphalia. Although his authority as emperor was weakened after the war, his position in Bohemia, Hungary and Austria was stronger than that of his predecessors before 1618.

Ferdinand was the first Habsburg monarch to be recognised as a musical composer.

Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646) was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by her marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She acted as regent on several occasions during the absences of her husband, notably during his absence in Bohemia in 1645.

The daughter of King Philip III of Spain and of Margaret of Austria, she was prior to her Imperial marriage considered a possible wife for Charles, Prince of Wales. The event, later known in history as the "Spanish match", provoked a domestic and political crisis in the kingdoms of England and Scotland. In the imperial court in Vienna, she continued to be strongly influenced by her native Spanish culture from clothes to music and also promoted the strengthening of relations between the Imperial and the Spanish branches of the House of Habsburg.

Maria Leopoldina av Österrike, född 1632, död 1649, tysk-romersk kejsarinna, gift med Ferdinand III, tysk-romersk kejsare.

Dotter till Leopold V av Främre Österrike-Tyrolen, ärkehertig av Österrike, och Claudia de Medici. Gift med sin kusin Ferdinand III, tysk-romersk kejsare, år 1648.

Hon blev gravid snart efter bröllopet, men förlossningen var svår och hon dog i barnsängsfeber. Barnet Karl Josef (1649–1664; biskop) överlevde.

Maria Leopoldina ligger begravd i ätten Habsburgs gravvalv i Wien.

Eleonora Magdalena av Mantua, född 18 november 1630, död 6 december 1686, var en tysk-romersk kejsarinna, gift med Ferdinand III (tysk-romersk kejsare). Hon spelade en viss roll som beskyddare av italiensk konst och kultur i Wien, både som kejsarinna och som änka; hon spelade ingen politisk roll som gift, men var som änka rådgivare åt sin styvson kejsaren och intresserade sig för en del politiska frågor.