Eleanor of Austria (1582-1620)

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Frans Pourbus the Younger - Archduchess Eleonore (1582–1620), oil on canvas, around 1603, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna

Eleanor of Austria (born September 25, 1582 in Graz , † January 28, 1620 in Hall in Tirol ) from the House of the Habsburgs was Archduchess of Austria .

Life

Eleonore was a daughter of Archduke Karl II of Austria-Styria (1540–1590) from his marriage to Maria Anna (1551–1608), daughter of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V.

In Eleanor and her sisters, the famous Habsburg lower lip is said to have clearly reappeared. Eleanor was considered intelligent, capricious, and of very poor health, due to a childhood smallpox disease .

Together with her sisters Gregoria and Margarete , Eleanor was the bride of the future King of Spain, Philip III. in conversation; corresponding portraits of the princesses were sent to Madrid, but Eleanor was not selected. Further marriage projects with various Italian princes failed.

Together with her sister Maria Christina , who had returned to the Viennese court after an unhappy marriage, Eleonore entered the noble women's monastery in Hall in 1607 . The two noble women brought 100,000 guilders with them to the monastery as "spiritual marriage goods". As a result, they received excellent medical and personal advice from the doctor Hippolyt Guarinoni . Still ailing, Eleanor spent the last years of her life blinded. She was buried in the Jesuit Church in Hall. Guarinoni wrote a biography of the Archduchess, but it was not printed.

literature

  • Friedrich Emanuel von Hurter: picture of a Christian princess Maria Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria , Hurter, 1860, p. 329 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Society for Racial Hygiene: Archive for Racial and Society Biology including Racial and Society Hygiene , Volume 8, p. 779 digitized
  2. ^ Karl Acham: Art and Humanities from Graz , Volume 2, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009, p. 88
  3. ^ Yearbook for European History 2007 , Volume 8, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2007, p. 35 digitized
  4. ↑ Eleanor . In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Eleanor of Austria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archduchess of Austria, canoness
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1582
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1620
Place of death Hall in Tirol