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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.
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 (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. The daughter of the Habsburg archduke ...
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Unknown artist: Archduchess Margaret of Austria as widow, painting, after 1506 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 the latter’s daughter and sole heir in 1477.
She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine , Grand Duchess of Tuscany , and Holy Roman Empress .
May 14, 2018 · Margaret of Austria (1480–1530) Duchess of Savoy who governed the Low Countries for most of the period between 1506 and 1530 . Name variations: Marguérite; Marguerite d'Autriche; Margaret Hapsburg; Duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands.
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.
