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Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain

1584 – 1611 · Generation XI · Consort · Austrian Habsburgs

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Margaret (1584 – 1611). Consort. Married Philip in 1599. Wife of Philip III and his cousin; daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Austria. Maria Anna of Bavaria was her mother. Of her siblings, Ferdinand rose to the imperial throne in 1619, while Anna and Constance each married Sigismund III of Poland in turn. At court her influence grew; the king was warmly attached to her and paid her still more attention once she bore him a son in 1605. Pious, a patron of the arts and thought by contemporaries astute in politics, she joined the dowager Empress Maria and the nun Archduchess Margaret in a circle that urged Spain to act as a Catholic power and stand by the Austrian Habsburgs. She fought constantly against the influence of the Duke of Lerma, whom she thought corrupt, though he fell only years after her death. Of her eight children, Anne became Queen of France and Maria Anna empress. She died giving birth to Alfonso; Philip never remarried.

Place in the family

  • Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain was a great-niece of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain was the younger of 2 children of Charles II, Archduke of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria recorded in this archive.
  • The archive records 35 of her descendants, across 13 generations.

One of 24 people of Austrian Habsburgs (1527–1754) in this archive. The Vienna line, which held the Holy Roman crown almost without a break.

Line of descent: Rudolf I of Germany → Albert I of Germany → Albert II, Duke of Austria → Leopold III, Duke of Austria → Ernest, Duke of Austria → Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor → Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor → Philip I of Castile → Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor → Charles II, Archduke of Austria → Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain.

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Life

  • 1584 — Born
  • 1599 — Married Philip
  • 1611 — Died

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