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Margaret of Austria (25 December 1584 – 3 October 1611) was Queen of Spain and Portugal by her marriage to King Philip III & II.
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.
Margaret of Austria: a life dedicated to the higher honour of the dynasty. 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 ...
Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain. 1607. Oil on canvas. Margaret of Austria married Philip III in 1599 after Philip II chose her from among the women of the Austria-Styria family. The marriage was planned to coincide with that of infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia and archduke Albert.
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.
Pantoja's portrait of Margaret of Austria, given as a gift to James I in 1605 following the peace treaty between England and Spain, follows in these traditions, though the ideology of Spanish Habsburg rule is more blatant than in earlier royal portraits.
Margaret of Austria (25 December 1584 – 3 October 1611) was Queen of Spain and Portugal by her marriage to King Philip III & II.
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