Maria of Austria (1531–1581)

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Jakob Seisenegger - Archduchess Maria (1531–1581), Duchess of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, full-length portrait with her first-born daughter Maria Eleonore, oil on canvas, around 1555, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna
Hans Besser - Portrait of the Archduchess as Duchess of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , around 1555, City Museum, State Capital Düsseldorf

Maria of Austria (born May 15, 1531 in Prague , † December 11, 1581 in Hambach Castle ) from the house of the Habsburgs , was an Archduchess of Austria and by marriage Duchess of Jülich, Kleve and Berg .

Life

Maria was a daughter of the later Roman-German Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) from his marriage to Anna Jagiello (1503–1547), daughter of King Vladislav II of Bohemia and Hungary .

She married on July 18, 1546 in Regensburg, Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , called the rich (1516–1592). The marriage was very laboriously committed in the presence of Emperor Charles V , Mary's uncle, and was one of the agreements in the Treaty of Venlo , in which Wilhelm had to cede the Duchy of Geldern to the House of Austria after the War of the Geldr Succession and committed himself to the Catholic camp of Stay rich. After the marriage with his niece, Emperor Charles V granted Wilhelm the privilege that if the male line of his house died out, his daughters would also be considered capable of succession. The convention toe forced upon Wilhelm was considered happy in spite of everything.

Maria, a granddaughter of Joan the Mad , was considered melancholy and was only temporarily, later completely insane. She was buried in the collegiate church Mariae Himmelfahrt in Kleve .

progeny

From their marriage, Maria had the following children:

⚭ 1573 Duke Albrecht Friedrich of Prussia (1553–1618)
⚭ 1574 Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig von Neuburg (1547–1614)
⚭ 1579 Count Palatine Johann I of Zweibrücken (1550–1604)
⚭ 1601 Margrave Karl von Burgau (1560–1618)
⚭ 1. 1585 Princess Jakobäa von Baden (1558–1597)
⚭ 2. 1599 Princess Antonie of Lorraine (1568–1610)

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria von Österreich, Duchess von Jülich, Kleve and Berg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. History of the Prussian State: Th. From the year 1191 to 1640. 1830 , F. Perthes, 1830, p. 364 digitized
  2. Johann Friedrich Knapp: Regenten- und Volks -geschichte der Lander Cleve, Mark, Jülich, Berg, and Ravensberg , Volume 3, CJ Becker, 1836, p. 156
  3. Canstatt's annual report on the progress of all medicine in all countries , Stahel, 1851, p. 45