The Emperor Who Turned His Life into a Secret Romance

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He was Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor at the turn of 1500.
By day he ruled diets, wars and marriages across the Empire.
By night he worked on something stranger: books about himself.
One of them was a prose work called “Weisskunig” – “The White King.”
On the page, a “young White King” clearly stands in for Maximilian.
The story blends real campaigns with chivalric adventures and courtly romance.
He dictated many passages to his secretary, who acted as his ghostwriter.
At the same time he planned another tale, “Freydal,” about a knight in tournaments.
The knight is really Maximilian, and the princess is his late wife, Mary of Burgundy.
These were not simple hobbies; they were carefully staged self-portraits in story form.
He filled them with jousts, hunts and speeches the “ideal” emperor should give.
Yet he never turned them into cheap books for the general public.
Manuscripts and luxury prints were shared only with selected princes and allies.
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