The Hungarians complain that they are being…

The Hungarians complain that they are being ruled and exploited as a subject people by foreigners, while Vienna looks on them as truculent rebels.

Matters grow worse after the mentally unbalanced Rudolf II, whose advisers hate Hungary and its traditions, succeeds his father in late 1576 and a religious conflict supervenes on the constitutional dispute, for in the preceding half-century the Reformation has swept over Hungary.