Margaret of Austria (1536–1567)
Margaret of Austria (born February 16, 1536 in Innsbruck , † March 12, 1567 in Hall in Tirol ) was Archduchess of Austria and co-founder and canon of the Haller Damenstift .
Life
Margarethe was a daughter of the future Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) from his marriage to Anna Jagiello (1503–1547), daughter of King Vladislav II of Bohemia and Hungary . Margarethe was brought up as a Catholic in relatively simple circumstances.
As part of the Augsburg Reichstag in 1550, Ferdinand I and his brother Charles V negotiated about the succession in the Reich. The sister of the two, Maria of Hungary , mediated the negotiations and suggested a marriage between Margaret and the son of Charles V, who would later become King Philip II of Spain . However, this plan was rejected in the follow-up negotiations.
Together with her sisters Magdalene and Helene , Margarethe founded the Haller Damenstift. Margarethe died one day after joining the monastery, before the monastery building and the church were completed, and was buried in the Jesuit church in Hall in 1572 . Jakob von Boymont acted as one of her pallbearers , who five years later was also present at the opening of the coffin and the transfer of the corpse and remarked about her remains: " Sy [...] is lying there, as if he were asleep and even without shape e have been measuring the sacred life of ain zaichen ”. Jakob von Boymont was one of the operators of the canonization efforts for the foundation of the monastery.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Margaretha (daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I) . No. 190. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 11 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Edelmayer : Philipp II. (1527-1598): the biography of a world ruler , W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2009, p. 69
- ^ Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi: Genealogical history of the hereditary imperial estates in Germany , Volume 2, Gebauer, 1779, p. 448 digitized
- ↑ Harald Tersch: Austrian testimonies of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400 - 1650) , Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1998, p. 261
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margarethe of Austria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margaretha of Austria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archduchess of Austria, co-founder of the Haller Damenstift |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1536 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1567 |
| Place of death | Hall in Tirol |