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The third son, Ferdinand Karl (1868–1915), caused a stir in 1911 when he was forced to leave the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by Emperor Franz Joseph, having admitted to secretly marrying the commoner Berta Czuber (1879–1979). He subsequently assumed the name Ferdinand Burg.
The first of these was Maximilian’s own nuptial union: the Burgundian Marriage to the richest heiress in Europe at the time, Mary of Burgundy, enabled the dynasty to gain a foothold in western Europe, in particular in territories such as Flanders and Brabant, whose flourishing urban centres had made them among the most highly developed cultural and economic regions in Europe.
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The marriage of James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor is a good example. Their marriage formed a part of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between Scotland and England which aimed to end almost 200 years of intermittent warfare. The treaty was signed by James IV and Margaret's father Henry VII of England in 1502 and they were then married in 1503.
Shy and delicate, Karl was just another child among the massed ranks of his brothers and sisters. A turning point came in the young archduke’s life when his aunt, Marie Christine, began to take an interest in him. A daughter of Maria Theresa, she was married to Albert of Saxony-Teschen, but the marriage had remained childless.
Aug 5, 2016 · Abstract. This paper provides a survey of English matrimonial law and practice between 1500 and 1640. Throughout this period, the English church retained its hold on this aspect of human life. The Reformation did not lead to eclipse of the canon law or the end of ecclesiastical jurisdiction over marriage and divorce, as happened in Scotland and ...
- Richard H. Helmholz
- dick_helmholz@law.uchicago.edu
- 2016
The first major growth in Habsburg holdings was a result of Maximilian’s arranged marriage to Mary of Burgundy (top right) which, through Mary’s lack of brothers, resulted in Maximilian's heirs inheriting Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Burgundy (Skjelver and Wiesflecker).
Dynastic Marriage in Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft 245 anomaly appears when one finds otherwise shrewd and ruthless princes troubling themselves to conform to a custom that a sophisticated contem-porary critic saw fulfilling its main purpose badly. It is, of course, possible to find sixteenth-century Habsburg rationalizations
