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  1. Catherine of Austria (Portuguese: Catarina; 14 January 1507 – 12 February 1578) was Queen of Portugal as wife of King John III, and regent during the minority of her grandson, King Sebastian, from 1557 until 1562.

  2. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Catherine of Austria ( Polish: Katarzyna Habsburżanka; Lithuanian: Kotryna Habsburgaitė; 15 September 1533 – 28 February 1572) was one of the fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. In 1553, she married Polish King Sigismund II Augustus and became Queen consort of ...

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  4. Born in 1533; died in 1572; daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman emperor (r. 1558–1564), and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547); sister of Elizabeth of Habsburg (d. 1545), Maximilian II (1527–1576), Holy Roman emperor (r. 1564–1576), and Eleonora of Austria (1534–1594); married Francesco Gonzaga (1533–1550), 2nd duke of Mantua (r. 1540–1550)...

  5. Catherine of Habsburg or Catherine of Austria may refer to: Catherine of Habsburg (1256–1282), daughter of Rudolf I of Germany and wife of Otto III, Duke of Bavaria; Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria (1295–1323), daughter of Albert I, Duke of Austria, and wife of Charles, Duke of Calabria

  6. Jan 1, 2005 · Historiography has imaged Catherine as a Habsburg princess, who only represented and promoted Habsburg policies at the Lisbon court. Unquestionably dedicated to the emperor, and beside his wife Isabella, one of his strongest allies in Iberia, Catherine did not blindly support his policies.

    • Jordan, Annemarie
    • Portuguese Studies Review
    • Jan 1, 2005
    • Habsburg Queen and Portugal
  7. The world power of the Habsburgs. Even before Frederick III’s time the house of Habsburg had won much of its standing in Germany and in central Europe through marriages to heiresses. Frederick’s son Maximilian carried that matrimonial policy to heights of unequaled brilliance. First he himself in 1477 married the heiress of Burgundy ...

  8. Queen Catherine of Austria. 1552 - 1553. Oil on panel. Room 056. Born in 1507 after the death of her father, Felipe el Hermoso, the younger sister of Carlos V married Juan III of Portugal in 1525 and died in 1578. Gifted with an energetic character, she took on the regency of Portugal in the name of her under-aged grandson, Sebastián.

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