Barbara Blomberg

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Barbara Blomberg with Emperor Karl V (wood engraving from 1894)
Kramgasse in Regensburg

Barbara Blomberg (* 1527 in the imperial city of Regensburg ; † December 18, 1597 in Ambrosero , Spain ), also known as Schöne Barbara , was the mistress of Emperor Charles V and the mother of his son Don Juan de Austria , the winner of the naval battle of Lepanto .

Life

Barbara was born as the eldest daughter of the master belt maker Wolfgang Plumberger and his wife Sibilla in the Kramgasse in Regensburg.

The 19-year-old was famous for her beauty. When Emperor Charles V stayed at the Reichstag in Regensburg in the summer of 1546 , he met the girl; a stormy but brief romance developed between the two.

At the hostel Zum Goldenen Kreuz on Haidplatz is a reminder:

In this old- fashioned house /
Has often guessed after a long
drive Mr. KAYSER CARL THE FIVE / Well
known all over the world /
He also had a good
hour and kissed a young kfraw.

The same was called in far and near
one only the beautiful BARBARA /
her tribe was honest / plain and right
PLUMBERGER wrote the sex /
which brought the
kayser dearly a lot of suffering / but comfort and heyl of Christianity.

Then from it grew / like the father
the DON JUAN VON OESTERREICH /
who was LEPANTO in battle /
the Turkish power of
the LORD has annihilated it for all time /
as yesterday as in eternity.

On February 24, 1547 (exactly 47 years after his father to the day) their son was born in Regensburg in strict secrecy. He was separated from his mother at the age of three and taken to Spain . Barbara soon married the imperial official Hieronymus Kegel. This was made easier by an annual pension of 400 thalers and 5000 guilders of marriage property, which had been granted to her by the imperial court. In 1551 the family moved to Brussels . Her husband was muster and war commissioner and responsible for equipping the imperial mercenary army . They had three children together.

Don Juan de Austria

When the husband died in 1569, he left his family in uncertain financial circumstances. At the instigation of the Duke of Alba , who was governor of the Netherlands at the time , Philip II , the son of Charles V, granted Barbara and their children a generous allowance. With that he gave her a respected social position. In return she was supposed to move to a Spanish monastery. However, Barbara was not ready to give up her permissive and above all self-determined life.

In November 1576 there was a single meeting between mother and son. Juan de Austria was to take office as governor-general of the Netherlands in May 1577. The content of the conversation has not been handed down; however, Barbara then agreed to travel to Spain so as not to complicate the office of her son. She went to a Dominican convent in Castile , 70 km south of Valladolid . After the early death of her son, Philip II allowed her to freely choose her place of residence. She first settled in the small town of Colindres . In 1584 she moved to Ambrosero, a nearby village in what is now Cantabria . There she ran a farm together with her children and some servants and led an independent life.

“Madame Barbara de Blombergh”, as she was called, died on her estate at the age of 70. A coat of arms of Charles V was found in her estate.

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  1. ↑ a b c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. 1000 biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 69.
personal data
SURNAME Blomberg, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Beloved Emperor Karl V .; Mother of Don Juan de Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1527
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1597
Place of death Ambrosero , Spain