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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 .
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 ...
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When Electress Margaret Habsburg of Saxony was born on 21 August 1416, in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, her father, Ernst von Habsburg I, was 38 and her mother, Cymburgis of Masovia, was 22. She married Elector Frederick II Wettin of Saxony on 3 June 1431, in Leipzig, Amt Leipzig, Saxony.
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Margaret of Austria. 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.
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