Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567–1633)

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 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 survive infancy.. Since her early childhood, she was deeply influenced by her mother's strict catholicism; in 1582 Empress Maria returned to her homeland Spain forever, taken her youngest surviving child Margaret with her. She took the veil 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.

Ancestry

Family of Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567–1633)

16. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 8. Philip I of Castile 17. Mary of Burgundy 4. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 18. Ferdinand II of Aragon 9. Joanna of Castile 19. Isabella I of Castile 2. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 20. Casimir IV Jagiellon 10. Vladislas II of Bohemia and Hungary 21. Elisabeth of Austria 5. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary 22. Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale 11. Anna of Foix-Candale 23. Catherine of Foix 1. Archduke Margaret of Austria 24. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (= 16.) 12. Philip I of Castile (= 8.) 25. Mary of Burgundy (= 17.) 6. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 26. Ferdinand II of Aragon (= 18.) 13. Joanna of Castile (= 9.) 27. Isabella I of Castile (= 19.) 3. Maria of Spain 28. Fernando, Duke of Viseu 14. Manuel I of Portugal 29. Beatrice of Portugal 7. Isabella of Portugal 30. Ferdinand II of Aragon (= 18.) 15. Maria of Aragon and Castile 31. Isabella I of Castile (= 19.)

References

• Richard Reifenscheid: Die Habsburger in Lebensbildern, Piper Verlag (2007).