Talk:Maximilian I of Mexico

style

Surely his style when he was born was His Imperial Highness not His Imperial Majesty? STÓD/ÉÍRE 23:53 Mar 8, 2003 (UTC)

Surely<G>. -- Someone else 00:01 Mar 9, 2003 (UTC)

Removed after Public Domain 1911 encyclopedia entry, as it's been fairly extensively modified by now. -- Infrogmation 01:02 Mar 9, 2003 (UTC)

Who was Tegethoff? -- Zoe

Article name

I note that this article was recently moved from "Maximilian of Mexico" to "Maximilian I of Mexico". Could the reason please be clearly explained here? I presume it is something relevent to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles)? Thanks. Wondering, -- Infrogmation 06:44, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For monarchs who are the only one of their name, the current policy is:

Where there has only been one holder of a specific monarchical name in a state, the ordinal is used only when the ordinal was in official use. For example, Victoria of the United Kingdom, not Victoria I of the United Kingdom; Juan Carlos I of Spain, not Juan Carlos of Spain.

I proposed this policy some months ago, and there were no objections, so I changed it some months ago. Maximilian, so far as I can gather, did take the ordinal (see [1], which is usually reliable). Thus, the ordinal should be in. john k 13:56, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

About Maximilian's Death

When Juárez refused to commute Maximilian's death sentence, it wasn't to send a message to the world. The Mexican president didn't commute it because he said that Maximilian's life was out of his hands, and it was now in those of "the law and the people." (I retrieved this from a biography of Juárez by Dennis Wepman)

--Tower Interface 12:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

This is about a theory about Maximilian's death

I think it was around 2000 or 2001, I don't remember the exact date, but Los Angeles times published a theory about Maximilian's death on it. The writter stated that Benito Juarez had actually let Maximilian go and instead the one who was shot was a look a like, according to the newspaper he left to Central America where he died in poverty, since he couldn't go back to Austria because of political conflicts regarding the trone. Do any of you know about this conspiracy?

When did he change his name to Craig MacMillan?

The article mentions his born name (German), but refers to him as Craig Macmillan, an English/Scottish name throughout. When and why did the name change occurr? Zapiens 14:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Craig MacMillan

What is this Craig MacMillan nonsense? It can't be edited. Can someone please correct this? It's obviously a prank.

PARENTAGE OF MAXIMILIAN

Not everybody accepts the parentage of Maximilian as given in this article. During the period when he was born, there was a close friendship between his mother the Archduchess Sophie and the Duke of Reichstadt, a.k.a. Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte. Many have noted the close facial resemblance betwixt Maximilian and Reichstadt, not to mention the fact that the imperial nanny had a habit of referring to Maximilian as "the stepson".