Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain
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Tenure | 18 April 1599 – 3 October 1611 |
Born | Graz, Duchy of Styria, Holy Roman Empire | 25 December 1584
Died | 3 October 1611 San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Crown of Castile | (aged 26)
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Maria Anna of Bavaria |
Margaret of Austria (25 December 1584 – 3 October 1611) was
Life
Margaret was the daughter of Archduke
Queen of Spain
Margaret married Philip III of Spain, her first-cousin, once-removed, on 18 April 1599.
She became a very influential figure at her husband's court. Philip had an "affectionate, close relationship" with Margaret, and paid her additional attention after they had a son in 1605.[1]
Margaret was also a great patron of the arts. She was considered by contemporaries[who?] to be a very pious Catholic and "astute and very skillful" in her political dealings.[2]
Alongside the Empress
The pro-Austrian camp at the Spanish court was opposed by the
Margaret died while giving birth to her youngest child, Alfonso. Her husband never remarried and died ten years later.
Issue
Margaret and Philip had eight children:
- Anna Maria Mauricia (22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666), queen of France
- Maria (1 February 1603 -1 March 1603)
- Philip (8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665), king of Spain
- Maria Anna (18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646), empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- Charles(14 September 1607 – 30 July 1632)
- Ferdinand (16 May 1609 – 9 November 1641), a cardinal
- Margaret (24 May 1610 – 11 March 1617)
- Alphonse Maurice (22 September 1611 – 16 September 1612)
Ancestors
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Depiction in media
Margaret of Austria is portrayed by
Actress Viveca Lindfors portrayed Margaret in the 1948 Hollywood movie Adventures of Don Juan.
Bibliography
- Magdalena S. Sánchez, Pious and Political Images of a Habsburg Woman at the Court of Philip III (1598–1621). in: Magdalena S. Sánchez and Alain Saint-Saëns (ed.), Spanish women in the golden age: images and realities. Greenwood Publishing Group (1996).
References
- ^ a b Sánchez, p. 100.
- ^ a b Sánchez, p. 98-99.
- ^ a b Sánchez, p.91.
- ^ Sánchez, p.97.
- ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 352 – via Wikisource. .
- ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 20 – via Wikisource. .
- ^ Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Obermayer-Marnach, Eva (1953), "Anna Jagjello", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 299; (full text online)
- ^ a b Goetz, Walter (1953), "Albrecht V.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 158–160; (full text online)
- ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 151 – via Wikisource. .
- ^ a b Philip I, King of Castile at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ a b Casimir IV, King of Poland at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Revue de l'Agenais (in French). Vol. 4. Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen. 1877. p. 497.
- ^ a b Riezler, Sigmund Ritter von (1897), "Wilhelm IV.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 42, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 705–717
- ^ a b Brüning, Rainer (2001), "Philipp I.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 20, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 372; (full text online)
- ^ "Elena Rivera interpreta a la Infanta Margarita en 'El Ministerio del Tiempo'". Formula TV (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 June 2017.