Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567–1633)

Archduchess Margaret
Portrait of Margaret as a Poor Clare nun
Born 25 January 1567
Vienna
Died 5 July 1633(1633-07-05) (aged 66)
Madrid
House House of Habsburg
Father Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother Infanta María of Spain
Religion Roman Catholicism

Archduchess Margaret of Austria (25 January 1567 – 5 July 1633), was a German princess member of the House of Habsburg.

She was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor by his wife Maria of Spain.

Life

Born in Wiener Neustadt, Margaret was the fifteenth child and fifth daughter of her parents' sixteen children, from whom eight survived infancy.[1][2] Since her early childhood, she was deeply influenced by her mother's strict Catholicism.

In 1582 Empress Maria returned to her homeland Spain permanently, taking her youngest surviving child Margaret with her, promised to marry Philip II of Spain, who had lost his fourth wife, her sister, Anna of Austria, in 1580. Margaret finally refused and took the veil under the name of Sister Margaret of the Cross as a Poor Clare nun in the Monastery of Santa Clara de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, where she died aged sixty-six. Margaret was buried in her convent.[3]

Ancestry

The ancestry back to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, spanned 5 generations.[1]

References

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  13. 1 2 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at Encyclopædia Britannica
  14. 1 2 Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Maria von Spanien" (in German). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire]. 7. Wikisource. p. 19.
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  16. 1 2 Harris, Carolyn (2017). Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. Dundurn Press. p. 78.
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