His ecclesiastical policy, which disturbed the deeply rooted convictions of his people and brought him into collision with the Pope, was not successful.

He and Joseph II were tenderly attached to one another and met frequently both before and after the death of their mother. Just better. Nascut a Florència el 3 d'octubre de 1797 essent fill del gran duc Ferran III de Toscana i de la princesa Lluïsa de Borbó-Dues Sicílies. His was the mildest and least reactionary of all the Italian despotisms of the day, and although always subject to Austrian influence he refused to adopt the Austrian methods of government, allowed a fair measure of liberty to the press, and permitted many political exiles from other states to dwell in Tuscany undisturbed. The marriage was never consummated and Maria Beatrice instead married Leopold's brother, For five years, Leopold exercised little more than nominal authority, under the supervision of counselors appointed by his mother. Im März 1799 marschierten die Truppen des revolutionären Frankreich in die Toskana ein, was die großherzogliche Familie zur Emigration nach Wien zwang. Leopold wurde als zweiter Sohn des Großherzogs Ferdinand III. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished in 1919.Le livre d'or de l'ordre de Léopold et de la croix de fer, Volume 1 /Ferdinand Veldekens In January, he had to dismiss the Count of Artois (afterwards Leopold died suddenly in Vienna, in March 1792, although some said he was poisoned or secretly murdered.Like his parents before him, Leopold had sixteen children, the eldest of his eight sons being his successor, Emperor His mother Empress Maria Theresa was the last Habsburg, and he was one of 16 children. Category:Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Leopold II (October 3, 1797 - January 29, 1870), of Habsburg-Lorraine, was Grand Duke of Tuscany, Prince Imperial and Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia. Leopold II (Peter Leopold Joseph Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard; 5 May 1747 – 1 March 1792) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, and Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. When he succeeded to the Austrian lands, he began by making large concessions to the interests offended by his brother's innovations. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished in 1919.Eberhard Weis, "Enlightenment and Absolutism in the Holy Roman Empire: Thoughts on Enlightened Absolutism in Germany", In 2000 Tuscany's regional authority instituted an annual holiday on 30 November to commemorate the event. Following the principal of Leopold, during his government in Tuscany, had shown a speculative tendency to grant his subjects a constitution. But Austrian influence prevented him from doing more, even had he wished to do so. Leopold hesitated and finally rejected the proposals as derogatory to his dignity. He succeeded his father on 18 June 1824. A personal appeal to During 1791, the emperor remained increasingly preoccupied with the affairs of France. He was unable to secularize the property of the religious houses or to put the clergy entirely under the control of the lay power. Political trials were held, Guerrazzi and many others being condemned to long terms of imprisonment, and although in 1855 the Austrian troops left Tuscany, Leopold's popularity was gone. Leopold II. (Toskana). During the twenty years that elapsed between his return to Florence and the death of his eldest brother As Leopold had no army to maintain, and as he suppressed the small naval force kept up by the Medici, the whole of his revenue was left free for the improvement of his state. Born in Florence, Leopold II was the son of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Princess Luisa Maria Amelia Teresa of the Two Sicilies, who were double first cousins. His habits were simple to the verge of sordidness, though he could display splendour on occasion, and he could not help offending those of his subjects who had profited by the abuses of the Medicean régime.But his steady, consistent, and intelligent administration, which advanced step by step, brought the grand duchy to a high level of material prosperity. On 27 April there was great excitement in Florence, Italian colours appeared everywhere, but order was maintained, and the grand-duke and his family departed for Leopold of Tuscany was a well-meaning, not unkindly man, and fonder of his subjects than were the other Italian despots, but he was weak, and too closely bound by family ties and He spent his last years in Austria, and died in Rome. Leopold II., römisch-deutscher Kaiser Che è cagion del suo mal pianga sé stesso. His disposition was cold and retiring. und dessen erster Gemahlin Luisa Maria von Neapel-Sizilien in Florenz, Palazzo Pitti geboren. But when during the early 1840s unrest spread throughout Italy, even in Tuscany demands for a constitution and other political reforms were advanced; in 1845 and 1846 riots occurred in various parts of the country, and Leopold granted a number of administrative reforms. During the first twenty years of his reign he devoted himself to the internal development of the state. His brother Joseph II died without any surviving children, but Leopold in turn had also 16 children just like his mother, and became the founder of the main line of the Generations are numbered by male-line descent from the first archdukes.