Empress Anna of Tyrol was born on 4 October 1585. Her father, Archduke Ferdinand II of Further Austria — the second son of Emperor Ferdinand I and therefore the younger brother of Emperor Maximilian II — had quite a history. In his youth, he secretly married a bourgeois woman with whom he enjoyed a happy […]
Margaret, Queen of Spain, passed away on 3 October 1611. She was the granddaughter of Emperor Ferdinand I and the sister of the future Emperor Ferdinand II. At the age of fifteen, she reluctantly married her first cousin once removed, Philip III of Spain. At the Spanish court, Margaret had to contend with the real […]
Emperor Charles VI was born on 1 October 1685. He was the second son of Emperor Leopold I from his third marriage to Eleonora Magdalena of Neuburg, and the younger brother of the future Emperor Joseph I. Most of Charles’s youth was spent in the struggle over the Spanish succession. When the last Spanish Habsburg, […]
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