Archduchess
Anna of Austria
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Anna of Austria |
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Archduchess
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February 29, 1528 |
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October 16, 1590 |
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William V,
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Anna of Austria (Prague, July 7, 1528 – Munich, October 16, 1590)
was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547).
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1Family
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2Life
Family[edit]
Anna was the third of fifteen
children. Her siblings included: Elizabeth, Queen of Poland, Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Catherine, Queen of Poland, Eleanor, Duchess of Mantua, Barbara, Duchess of Ferrara, Charles II, Archduke of Austria and Johanna, Duchess of Tuscany.
Anna's paternal grandparents were Philip I of Castile and his wife Joanna of
Castile. Her maternal grandparents were Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungaryand
his third wife Anne de Foix.[1]
Life[edit]
Anna
and her husband Albert playing chess, 1552.
She was engaged several times as a
child, first to Prince Theodor of Bavaria (1526–1534), then to Charles d'Orléans
(1522–1545), but both died young.
Anna finally married on July 4, 1546
in Regensburg at the age of 17, Duke Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, the brother of
her first fiancé. This marriage was part of a web of alliances in which her
uncle Charles V, Holy Roman Emperorhoped to
secure Albert's support before embarking on the Schmalkaldic
Wars.[2] The
wedding gift was 50,000 Guilder. The couple lived at the Trausnitz Castle in Landshut, until Albert became Duke.
Anna and Albert had great influence
on the spiritual life in the Duchy, and enhanced the reputation of Munchen as a
city of art, by founding several museums and the Bavarian State Library.
Anna and Albert were also patrons to
the painter Hans Müelich and composer Orlando di Lasso.
In 1552, Albert commissioned an inventory of the jewelry in the couple's
possession. The resulting manuscript, still held by the Bavarian State Library,
was the Jewel Book of the
Duchess Anna of Bavaria ("Kleinodienbuch
der Herzogin Anna von Bayern"), and contains 110 drawings by Hans Muelich.[3]
Children[edit]
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Karl (7 September 1547 –
7 December 1547)
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William V (1548–1626)
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Ferdinand (20 January
1550 – 30 January 1608)
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Maria Anna (1551–1608) married Archduke Charles II of Austria
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Maximiliana Maria (4 July
1552 – 11 July 1614)
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Friedrich (26 July 1553 –
18 April 1554)
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Ernst (17 December 1554 – 17 February 1612),
Archbishop of Cologne [4]
Ancestors[edit]
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Ancestors of Archduchess Anna of Austria |
References[edit]
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^ Ancestors of Anna of Habsburg
2.
^ Sutter
Fichtner, Paula (April 1976). "Dynastic Marriage in Sixteenth-Century
Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft: An Interdisciplinary Approach". The American Historical Review 81 (2): 243–265 [247]. JSTOR 1851170.
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^ Hans Mielich (1552). "Jewel Book of the Duchess Anna of Bavaria -
Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern". World Digital Library. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
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Duchess consort of Bavaria |
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