Anna Caterina Gonzaga

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Anna Caterina Gonzaga

Anna Caterina Gonzaga , Princess of Mantua and Montferrat , (born January 27, 1566 in Mantua ; † August 3, 1621 in Innsbruck ) was the wife of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria , Prince of Tyrol .

Life

She was the youngest daughter of the ruling Duke of Mantua and Montferrat Guglielmo Gonzaga and his wife Eleanor of Austria . She was comprehensively humanistically educated and, politically significant, came from a dynasty loyal to the emperor. She was even closely related to the imperial family through her mother.

On May 1, 1582, when she was 16, she married her 52-year-old Uncle Ferdinand II, who was previously married to Philippine Welser , in Mantua through the mediation of her aunt Magdalena of Austria . Because of the close relationship, the Pope had previously had to grant a dispensation . The groom was not present at the wedding in the church, but was represented by his nephew or Anna Caterina's cousin Ferdinand von Bayern . The young princess of Mantua brought 120,000 guilders and jewelry worth 40,000 gold ducats to Innsbruck as a substantial dowry . In return, the ducal father-in-law received the negotiated hereditary predicate “Altezza” (“Highness”) from the nephew of his son-in-law, Emperor Rudolf II . The princess of Mantua had three children with Ferdinand: Anna Eleonore (1583–1584), Maria (1584–1649) and Anna (1585–1618), who was later married to her cousin Emperor Matthias .

Anna Caterina founded several monasteries and, after her husband died in 1595, entered in 1612 under the religious name Anna Juliana together with her daughter Maria and 15 other women in the "Regelhaus" founded by her in Innsbruck, a kind of women's monastery of the Third Order. Her grave is in the Servite monastery in Innsbruck . Her beatification was initiated in 1693 at the episcopal authority in Brixen , but did not come to a conclusion.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elena Taddei: Anna von Tirol: "Empress for God's grace"? In: Bettina Braun, Katrin Keller and Matthias Schnettger (eds.): Only the Emperor's wife? Empresses in the early modern period , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20085-7 , p. 99f.
  2. ↑ a b Sigrid-Maria Großering , The golden apple: Stories from history , ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ a b c Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 116f.
  4. ↑ Paulus Rainer: Ah pro dolor! Quam multa sunt! Et quam pretiosa! The reliquary of Empress Anna (1585–1618) between Habsburg piety and parental inheritance. In: Early Modern Info, vol. 18, issue 1, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Gonzaga, Anna Caterina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Prince of Tyrol
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1621
Place of death innsbruck