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House of Habsburg. Father. Ernest, Duke of Austria. Mother. Cymburgis of Masovia. 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 .
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 ...
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. At the age of seventeen she was married to the Spanish infante Don Juan ...
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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 ...
Margaret of Austria, Margravine of Moravia (c.1346 – 14. January 1366), married John Henry of Moravia. Margarete of Austria (1395–1447), wife of Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria. Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416–1486), Habsburg princess, daughter of duke Ernest of Austria, married elector Frederick II of Saxony.
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Margaret of Austria (c. 1416 – 12 February 1486), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Electress of Saxony from 1431 until 1464 by her marriage with the Wettin elector Frederick II. She was a sister of Emperor Frederick III.
