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Margaret of Austria (c. 1416 – 12 February 1486), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Electress consort of Saxony from 1431 until 1464 by her marriage with the Wettin elector Frederick II. She was a sister of Emperor Frederick III.
Archduchess Margaret of Austria ( German: Margarete; French: Marguerite; Dutch: Margaretha; Spanish: Margarita; 10 January 1480 – 1 December 1530) was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands.
Margaret of Austria: a life dedicated to the higher honour of the dynasty | Die Welt der Habsburger. Margaret was a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Her high birth made her an object of dynastic policy from infancy.
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When Electress Margaret Habsburg of Saxony was born on 21 August 1416, in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, her father, Ernst von Habsburg I, was 38 and her mother, Cymburgis of Masovia, was 22. She married Elector Frederick II Wettin of Saxony on 3 June 1431, in Leipzig, Amt Leipzig, Saxony. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters.
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Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony is the 721st most popular nobleman (down from 584th in 2019), the 538th most popular biography from Austria (down from 481st in 2019) and the 28th most popular Austrian Nobleman.
Margaret of Saxony (c. 1416–1486) Duchess and electress of Saxony . Name variations: Margarethe. Born in 1416 or 1417 in Wiener Neustadt; died on February 12, 1486, in Altenburg; daughter of Cimburca of Masovia (c. 1396–1429) and Ernest (d. 1424, son of Leopold III of Austria); married Frederick II the Gentle (1412–1464), duke and elector ...
Habsburg. 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.
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