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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.
Mar 25, 2024 · 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.
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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.
May 14, 2018 · Margaret of Austria, 1480–1530, Hapsburg princess, regent of the Netherlands; daughter of Emperor Maximilian I [1]. She was betrothed (1483) to the dauphin of France, later King Charles VIII [2], and was transferred to the guardianship of Louis XI [3] of France (see Arras, Treaty of [4], 2).
views 3,791,972 updated. Margaret of Austria. 1480–1530. Habsburg ruler. 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.
She was a formidable force in the politics of her era. Margaret was born on January 10, 1480 in Brussels. Her father was the Archduke Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I) and her mother was Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, the daughter of Charles the Bold.
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.
