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  2. Margaret’s Motto: Fortune, Infortune, Fortune pretty much sums up her extraordinary life. Married three times with another marriage discussed, she refused to take a fourth husband. Her father eventually called upon her to be his representative and she spent most of the rest of her life as Regent of the Netherlands and foster mother to her ...

  3. Margaret was a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Her high birth made her an object of dynastic policy from infancy. Her father Maximilian was anxious to secure for the House of Habsburg the rich Burgundian inheritance that had passed to him after the death of the last Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, thanks to his marriage to ...

  4. May 14, 2018 · According to a biographer, Eleanor Tremayne, the motto means "Fortune strongly persecutes a woman." Other interpretations have also been suggested.

  5. Margaret of Austria was Regent of the Netherlands between 1517 and 1530. Conrad Meit was her court sculptor. He shows her with her husband Philibert, Duke of Savoy, who had died in 1504. The busts were probably models for larger sculptures. In tribute to this wife, his hatbadge shows St Margaret, with his motto, Je Ne Scai (‘I know not’). Margaret’s court was an important artistic centre ...

  6. A member of the powerful Habsburg dynasty, Margaret of Austria acted as regent* to her nephew, the future Charles V. The Habsburgs used Margaret as a political pawn, arranging marriages for her with various European rulers. However, she became a capable ruler in the Netherlands, a patron* of the arts, and a major force in the northern Renaissance.

  7. Margaret of Austria. Archduchess of Austria; governor of the Netherlands from 1507. Born in Brussels on 10 January 1480. Died in Mechelen (Eng. Mechlin, Fr. Malines; Belgium) on 1 December 1530. The daughter of Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, she was brought up at the French court. At the age of seventeen she was married to the ...

  8. Margaret of Austria’s tomb in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. Recommended further reading: There is at least one popular history biography of Margaret: Shirley Harrold Bonner’s Fortune, Misfortune, Fortifies One, originally published in 1981 and recently re-released. (The title is a reference to Margaret’s rather apt personal motto.)

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