Gregoria Maximiliane of Austria

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Jakob de Monte - Archduchess Gregoria Maximiliane (1581–1597) aged 11 to 12 in full figure, around 1592, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna

Gregoria Maximiliana of Austria (born March 22, 1581 in Graz ; † September 20, 1597 ibid) from the house of the Habsburgs was an archduchess of Austria .

Life

Gregoria Maximiliana 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, godparents of the princess were Pope Gregory XIII. and her Bavarian aunt Maximiliana . Gregoria was considered pious and of the children she had the closest relationship to her mother.

In Gregoria Maximiliana and her sisters, the famous Habsburg lower lip is said to have clearly come to the fore again, and Gregoria disfigured an overgrown shoulder and a scarred face.

In 1596 the Admiral of Aragon appeared in Graz and had the portraits of Gregorias and her sisters Eleonore and Margarete handed over to him. Gregoria Maximiliane was with the later Spanish King Philip III. engaged. Although Philip had chosen Margarete for the portraits, his father chose the elder Gregoria as his bride.

On September 17th, 1597, the Spanish bridal suitor rode into Graz. Gregoria was seriously ill at this point and she compared her suffering with the prisoners of war of the Turkish sultan. Three days later she died at the age of 16 and was buried in the Habsburg mausoleum of the Seckau basilica . Her sister Margarete married Gregoria's bridegroom Philipp in 1599.

literature

  • Friedrich Emanuel von Hurter: Picture of a Christian Princess Maria Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria , Hurter, 1860, p. 171 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Haubenreich: Genealogia , 1598, p. 80 digitized .
  2. ^ German Society for Racial Hygiene: Archive for Racial and Society Biology including Racial and Society Hygiene , Volume 8, p. 779 digitized .
  3. ^ Brigitte Hamann: Die Habsburger: ein biographisches Lexikon , Piper, 1988, p. 278.
  4. ^ Societatea Academică Română: Acta historica , Volume 3, Societatea Academică Română, 1959, p. 162.
  5. ^ Karl Acham: Art and Humanities from Graz , Volume 2, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2009, p. 88.
  6. ↑ Alexander Randa: Pro Republica Christiana , Volume 3, Romanian Academic Society, 1964, p. 166.
  7. ↑ Quirin Ritter von Leitner: The Treasury of the Very Highest Imperial House , printed by A. Holzhausen, 1882, p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Gregoria Maximiliane of Austria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austria, Gregoria Maximiliana von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archduchess of Austria
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1597
Place of death Graz