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- Margaret of Austria (c. 1577–1611) Queen of Spain. Name variations: Archduchess Margarete of Styria; Margaret Habsburg.
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Margaret of Austria (German: Margarethe von Österreich; c. 1204 – 29 October 1266), a member of the House of Babenberg, was German queen from 1225 until 1235, by her first marriage with King Henry (VII), and Queen of Bohemia from 1253 to 1260, by her second marriage with King Ottokar II.
Margaret of Austria (born January 10, 1480, Brussels [Belgium]—died December 1, 1530, Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands) was a Habsburg ruler who, as regent of the Netherlands (1507–15, 1519–30) for her nephew Charles (later the Holy Roman emperor Charles V ), helped consolidate Habsburg dominion there. The daughter of the Habsburg archduke ...
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The March of Styria was created in the Duchy of Carinthia in the late 10th century as a defence against the Magyars. Long called the Carantanian or Carinthian March it was soon ruled by a margravial dynasty called the Otakars that originated from Steyr in Upper Austria thus giving the land its name: "Steiermark".
Margaret of Austria (25 December 1584 – 3 October 1611) was Queen of Spain and Portugal by her marriage to King Philip III & II . Life. Margaret was the daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria and thus the paternal granddaughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I.
Margaret of Austria (c. 1577–1611) Queen of Spain. Name variations: Archduchess Margarete of Styria; Margaret Habsburg. Born c. 1577 (some sources cite 1584); died of puerperal fever in 1611; dau. of Karl also known as Charles (youngest son of Emperor Ferdinand I, founder of the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg), archduke of Styria ...
In 1252 he married Margaret of Babenberg, who was Frederick II’s sister and also his heir, the Privilegium minus having specified that the duchy of Austria could also be inherited in the female line. Ottokar divided up the territory with Bela IV of Hungary and later divorced Margaret, who bore him no children.
Margaret was the eldest daughter of Duke Leopold VI of Austria (d. 1230) and his wife Theodora Angelina, a member of the Byzantine Imperial Angelus dynasty. Since 1198 Duke Leopold, according to the Georgenberg Pact , ruled over both the duchies of Austria and Styria .
