question: Who succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria in 1711 and established the Tabula Banalis in 1723?
answer: Charles VI
context: Title: Tabula Banalis
  Passage: The Tabula Banalis (Croatian: "Banski stol" ) was the supreme court of Croatia.  It was established in 1723 by Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.  The court was presided over by the Ban of Croatia or by his deputy.  For more important trials it was the first instance court, and served as the court of appeal for verdicts of the county courts (for counties (comitatus) of Croatia and Slavonia).
  Title: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; German: "Karl VI." )  succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) in 1711.  He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative, Charles II, in 1700.  He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands.
  Title: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Leopold I (name in full: "Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician"; Hungarian: "I. Lipót" ; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.  The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV.  Elected in 1658, Leopold ruled the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1705.
  Title: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Ferdinand I (Spanish: "Fernando I" ) (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, and king of Croatia from 1527 until his death.  Before his accession, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.  Also, he often served as Charles' representative in Germany and developed useful relationships with German princes.
  Title: Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Maximilian II (31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576), a member of the Austrian House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death.  He was crowned King of Bohemia in Prague on 14 May 1562 and elected King of Germany (King of the Romans) on 24 November 1562.  On 8 September 1563 he was crowned King of Hungary and Croatia in the Hungarian capital Pressburg (Pozsony in Hungarian; now Bratislava, Slovakia).  On 25 July 1564 he succeeded his father Ferdinand I as ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.
  Title: Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Joseph I (26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 until his death in 1711.  He was the eldest son of Emperor Leopold I from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.  Joseph was crowned King of Hungary at the age of nine in 1687, and King in Germany at the age of eleven in 1690.  He succeeded to the imperial throne and that of Bohemia when his father died.
  Title: Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
  Passage: Ferdinand III (13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Holy Roman Emperor from 15 February 1637 until his death, as well as King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria.  He was the last emperor to have real power over the Holy Roman Empire.
  Title: Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria
  Passage: Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria (Alexander Leopold Johann Joseph; Hungarian: "Sándor Lipót" ; 14 August 1772 – 12 July 1795) was Palatine of Hungary, appointed during the reign of his father, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, and serving into the reign of his elder brother, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.
  Title: Suleiman (elephant)
  Passage: Suleiman (or Süleyman; Portuguese: Salomão ) (c. 1540 – 18 December 1553) was an Asian Elephant ("Elephas maximus maximus") that was presented to the Habsburg Archduke Maximilian II (later King of Bohemia, King of Hungary, and Holy Roman Emperor) by King John III of Portugal and his wife, Catherine of Austria, Habsburg princess and youngest sister of the Emperor Charles V.  This young elephant bull was born in captivity in the royal stables of the Tamil Hindu Bhuvanekabahu VII of Kotte (r. 1521–1551), King of Kotte (Ceylon).  The elephant came as a small baby to Lisbon with the entourage of the Kotte Ambassador Sri Ramaraska Pandita, sent to Portugal on a special diplomatic mission in 1542.  The mission is seen as a duplication of the Tamil embassy to Europe from Kudiramalai to the Roman emperor Claudius where Pliny describes how the inhabitants of the west coast kingdom's delighted in the elephant and the tiger c 47 CE.  The baby elephant Suleiman was seen as both a diplomatic and auspicious gift for the Portuguese monarchs, John III and Catherine.
  Title: Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress
  Passage: Archduchess Maria of Austria (21 June 1528 – 26 February 1603) was Holy Roman Empress and queen consort of Bohemia and Hungary as the spouse of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia and Hungary.  She served as regent of Spain in the absence of her father Emperor Charles V from 1548 until 1551, and in the absence of her brother Philip II, from 1558 to 1561.
citations: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Tabula Banalis