Archduchess Eleanor of Austria

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Eleanor of Austria
Duchess consort of Mantua and Montferrat
Tenure26 April 1561 – 14 August 1587
Born(1534-11-02)2 November 1534
Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire
Died5 August 1594(1594-08-05) (aged 59)
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
Spouse
William I, Duke of Mantua
(m. 1561; died 1587)
Issue
  • Vincent I, Duke of Mantua
  • Margherita, Duchess of Ferrara
  • Anna Caterina, Archduchess of Austria
Anna of Bohemia and Hungary

Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (2 November 1534 – 5 August 1594) was

Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
.

Life

Eleanor as a child

Eleanor was the eighth child and sixth daughter out of fifteen children born to King

Queen of France
.

Life in Mantua

She married

William I, Duke of Mantua
on 26 April 1561.

At about age 5, Eleanor's daughter Anne Catherine became severely ill and nearly died. She contracted a high fever and her extremities began to swell. For two years she was ill. Finally Eleanor and William appealed to the Virgin Mary with deep prayer, promising to raise Anne as a child of Mary if she lived on. Soon Anne became healthy again. Eleanor and William told their daughter of the Virgin Mary's intervention on her behalf and the promise they had made. From there out Eleanor educated and guided Anne Catherine in the cultivation of devotion to Mary. Throughout childhood Anne Catherine displayed a consistent sense of piety.

Eleonor died on 5 August 1594 at the age of 59, she had been a widow since 1587 when her husband died. She was one of the last children of Ferdinand and Anna alive at the time, the only other sibling alive at the time of her death was her brother Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria who only died one year later.

Issue

Her children were:

Ancestors

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