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Margaret of Austria ( German: Margarethe von Österreich; 16 February 1536 – 12 March 1567) was a co-founder of the Ladies' Convent of Hall ( Haller Damenstift), born an archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg as the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor .
Mechelen, Belgium. Margaret of Austria was regent of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1507 and 1530. Her residential palace was the Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) in Mechelen, the first renaissance building in the Low Countries. Note the magnificent renaissance frontage and the charming garden.
- Keizerstraat 20, Mechelen, Belgium
Oct 27, 2023 · Videos (1) Palace of Margaret of Austria. The guide was updated: 2023-10-27. History and architecture enthusiasts will feel at home in Mechelen straightaway, particularly when it comes to viewing the palaces of Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria!
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Portrait of Margaret aged ten by Jean Hey, c. 1490. Margaret was born on 10 January 1480 and named after her stepgrandmother, Margaret of York. She was the second child and only daughter of Maximilian of Austria (future Holy Roman Emperor) and Mary of Burgundy, co-sovereigns of the Low Countries. In 1482, her mother died and her four-year-old ...
Margaret was a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Her high birth made her an object of dynastic policy from infancy. Her father Maximilian was anxious to secure for the House of Habsburg the rich Burgundian inheritance that had passed to him after the death of the last Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, thanks to his marriage to ...
Feb 16, 2024 · Margaret of Austria was born on 16 February 1536 as the daughter of the future Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. She was their ninth child and seventh daughter. She was born in Innsbruck. 1. Alongside her sisters Helena and Magdelena, she expressed the wish to stay unmarried.
Margaret of Austria. WB.261 about 1515–25 • Boxwood • portrait bust. Margaret of Austria was Regent of the Netherlands between 1517 and 1530. Conrad Meit was her court sculptor. He shows her with her husband Philibert, Duke of Savoy, who had died in 1504. The busts were probably models for larger sculptures.
