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2 days ago · One chapel not to miss is the crypt of the Wittelsbach dynasty, where many of Bavaria‘s rulers lie buried beneath elaborate Renaissance and Baroque tombs. But perhaps the Frauenkirche‘s most famous (and unusual) feature is the legendary "Devil‘s Footprint" impressed into a tile near the entrance.
4 days ago · Gertrude of Hohenburg (c. 1225 – 16 February 1281, Vienna) was the first Queen consort of Rudolph I of Germany. Family. She was born to Burchard V, Count of Hohenberg (d. 1253) and his wife Mechtild of Tübingen. Her paternal grandparents were Burchard IV, Count of Hohenberg and his unnamed wife.
2 days ago · Margaret of Austria. Signature. Anne of Austria ( French: Anne d'Autriche; Spanish: Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620.
4 days ago · Maria Theresa. (Show more) War of the Austrian Succession, (1740–48), a conglomeration of related wars, two of which developed directly from the death of Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor and head of the Austrian branch of the house of Habsburg, on Oct. 20, 1740. In the war for the Austrian succession itself, France unsuccessfully supported the ...
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2 days ago · Leopold and Margaret's daughter Maria Antonia (1669–1692) married Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1685, and on 28 October 1692, they had a son, Joseph Ferdinand. Under the October 1698 Treaty of the Hague between France, Britain and the Dutch Republic, five-year old Joseph was designated heir to Charles II; in return, France and ...
4 days ago · Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria: 1724–1780 Founders' Crypt in the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden King Frederick Augustus I: 1750–1827 Founders' Crypt in the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld: 1752–1828 Founders' Crypt in the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden King Anthony I: 1755–1836
5 days ago · Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, ISBN: 978-3319632261; 242pp.; Price: £74.99. As uncomfortable as it is for historians to admit, we cannot deny the veracity of the old adage, ‘history is written by the victors’. Before the advent of gender and feminist histories ...
