Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567–1633)

Archduchess Margaret of Austria (25 January 1567 – 5 July 1633), was an Austrian archduchess member of the House of Habsburg.

Archduchess Margaret
Margaret as a Poor Clare nun
Born25 January 1567
Vienna
Died5 July 1633(1633-07-05) (aged 66)
Madrid
HouseHabsburg
FatherMaximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherMaria of Spain
ReligionRoman Catholicism

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.

Life as a nun

Margaret refused marriage to Philip II 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. Her mother was also resident in the convent until her death in 1603. Margaret was the dedicatee of the first published edition of the requiem which was composed for her mother´s funeral by the composer and priest Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Margaret died aged sixty-six and was buried in her convent.[3]

Ancestry

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