Empress Maria Theresa died on 29 November 1780. Without doubt, it was one of the most significant events in the Habsburg family’s calendar in the entire eighteenth century. Earlier that month, the Imperial court was preparing for its annual departure from Schönbrunn Palace to move to the Hofburg for the winter season. The sixty-three-year-old Empress […]
Isabella of Parma, the first wife of Joseph, the future Emperor, died on 27 November 1763. However strange it may sound, among all persons concerned one could hardly find two more opposing views of this event than those of the married couple themselves. For Joseph, it was as if the sun had set forever. He […]
Empress Maria Luisa of Spain was born on 24 November 1745, exactly on her mother’s 21st birthday. She was born in Italy, where her father Charles ruled as King of Naples and Sicily. In 1759, Charles succeeded his childless brother on the Spanish throne, and the family moved to Spain. Together with her surviving siblings, […]
Emperor Francis Joseph I passed away on 21 November 1916. At the age of eighty-six, he had ruled for nearly sixty-eight years. The old Emperor’s last years were rather sad and lonely. Many of his closest family members had died — his son and wife, all his siblings except one unmarried brother, and almost all […]
Archduchess Maria Anna of Habsburg-Lorraine, my protagonist, passed away on 19 November 1789. The details of her life have been discussed throughout this webpage. Unmarried and childless, Marianne lived a withdrawn life at the Imperial court in Vienna until the death of her mother, Maria Theresa, in 1780. In the final decade of her life, […]
Archduchess Eleanor, later Queen of Portugal and France, was born on 15 November 1498. She was the elder sister of Emperor Charles V. Eleanor belongs to the unfortunate group of Habsburg princesses forbidden to marry their true love. In 1516, the Archduchess met Frederick, one of the sons of the Elector Palatine, at the court […]
Archduke Albert VII was born on 13 November 1559. He was the fifth son of Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. Albert grew up at the Spanish court and spent most of his life in the service of his maternal uncle, King Philip II. As a younger son, he was destined for an ecclesiastical […]
Christina of Oldenburg was born sometime in November 1521. By birth, she was a Princess of Denmark, the daughter of King Christian II. Through her mother, Isabella of Austria, she was the matrilineal niece of Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I. By her two marriages, she became one of the most prominently connected ladies of […]
Joanna of Castile, the nominal Queen of Castile and Aragon, was born on 6th November 1479. She was the daughter of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. Through her marriage to Archduke Philip, called the Handsome, she became the ancestress of all subsequent Habsburg rulers. Although she was the rightful […]
Archduke Leopold Johann died on 4 November 1716. Quite unaccustomed to the Habsburgs, his parents, Emperor Charles VI and Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, were not closely related and therefore could expect to have healthy children. After seven years of marriage, their hope was finally fulfilled. True, the baby seemed rather fragile and slightly deformed […]
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