Ferdinand was born in Madrid on 10 March 1503 to Philip the Handsome of the House of Habsburg and Queen Joanna the Mad of Castile. After the death of Ferdinand's uncle, the Emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand received the hereditary Habsburg lands of Austria, Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, and the Tyrol. On 25 May 1521 he married Anne of Bohemia, the daughter of King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. Ferdinand's elder brother was the Emperor Charles V, but as he spent most of his time ruling his possessions in Spain Ferdinand found himself ruling in his absence.