Portrait of Maximilian II
by SCROTS, Guillaume, Oil on canvas
Maximilian spent both his childhood and youth from 1529 to 1543 with his brother Ferdinand, who was his junior by two years, and his sisters in Innsbruck. In 1544 both archdukes travelled to Spain in order to stay with their uncle from then on and to take part in the war against the German protestant rulers in 1546-1547.