the struggle for the throwns of Rudolf II. In the end the negotiations came to nothing because Magdalena didn’t want to be his wife. Since 1605, due to the uprising of Stefan Bocskai in Hungary and Transylvania, the emperor and Matthias as governor in Vienna had been pursuing a more moderate policy toward the protestant opposition in the estates of the Habsburgmonarchie because they needed their support against Bocskai. Khlesl opposed this policy, but the final decision lay in the hands of the council around Matthias and increasingly Karl I von Liechtenstein, privy councillor of Rudolf II and some times his High Steward. Liechtenstein increasingly dominated the politics of Archduke Matthias up to the point of a putsch against his brother, Emperor Rudolf II. Matthias took over Austria, Moravia and Hungry. But for this success he had to make, first of all advised by Liechtenstein, hard concessions to his allied estates. In the spring 1609 Khlesl was finally able to reach the high point of his power in Vienna when he became the minister-favourite of Matthias, for beeing formally the president of privy council he had to wait until January 1613. Liechtenstein left the court. Khlesls struggle for the position of the dominate minister in Vienna, however, continued until December 1611 when Liechtenstein gave up and admitted defeat. In 1609 Khlesl tried to withdraw the concessions made to the oppositional estates made by Liechtenstein and his supporters. But the quarrel with the emperor plus the political and economic weakness of Matthias forced Khlesl to take an increasingly more moderate stance toward the protestant opposition and even with the Calvinists. Khlesl was working to make Matthias the next emperor. For this goal he needed the protestant Electors. The ecclesiastical (bishop) electors were in favor of Archduke Albrecht VII, brother of Matthias and ruler of the Spanish Netherlands, to be the next emperor. After the death of Rudolf II, the election of Matthias succeeded thanks to the protestant vote. As the minister-favourite of the new Emperor, Khlesl at first pursued a policy of mobilizing the estates of the Roman-German Empire for a new war against the Turks, hoping to unify the hostile confessional camps under the emperor. But this move proved to be a failure. Hence he began in 1614 to negotiate with Turkish envoys for a new peace treaty. The Treaty of Vienna in 1615 with the Turkish Empire was probably