Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1567–1633)

Portrait of Archduchess Margaret of Austria as Poor Clare nun, ca. 1610.

Archduchess Margaret of Austria (25 January 1567 – 5 July 1633), was a German princess member of the House of Habsburg.

She was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor by his wife Maria of Spain.

Life

Born in Wiener Neustadt, Margaret was the fifteenth child and fifth daughter of her parents' sixteen children, from whom eight survive infancy.^[1][2] Since her early childhood, she was deeply influenced by her mother's strict Catholicism; in 1582 Empress Maria returned to her homeland Spain forever, taken her youngest surviving child Margaret with her. She took the veil under the name of Sister Margaret of the Cross as a Poor Clare nun in the Monastery of Santa Clara de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, where she died aged sixty-six. Margaret was buried in her convent.

Ancestry

References

1. ^ Complete Genealogy of the House of Habsburg
2. ^ Genealogy Database by Daniel de Rauglaudre

• Richard Reifenscheid: Die Habsburger in Lebensbildern, Piper Verlag (2007).

Persondata
Name	Margaret Of Austria
Alternative names	Archduchess
Short description
Date of birth	25 January 1567
Place of birth	Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Date of death	5 July 1633
Place of death	Madrid, Spain