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2 unusual facts about Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain


Adventures of Don Juan

The Spanish ambassador in London, Count de Polan (Robert Warwick), sends a letter of recommendation to his friend Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors), asking her to provide an opportunity at the court to rehabilitate Don Juan after the gossiping and rumors about his multiple illicit love affairs.

Mailu Island

All the nearby land including the coast of New Guinea was called by the Spaniards Magna Margarita to honour the wife of the king of Spain at that time Philip III, Margaret of Austria.


Andrés López Polanco

In his portraits of Philip III (Nelahozeves Castle, Czech Republic) and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, he does not depart from the tradition of court portraiture, gently resolving the details of the clothing.

Diego Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Guadalcázar

In 1598, aged 20, he was in Central Europe as an ambassador with a mandate to travel and bring back to Spain the 13-14 year old orphaned bride Margaret of Austria (daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria), the first, and unique, wife of king Philip III of Spain, being awarded the title of marquis of Guadalcázar, in 1609.

Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine

Three-year-old Dorothea and her sister and brother followed their exiled parents to Veere in Zeeland, the Netherlands, and were taken care of by the Dutch regents, their grandaunt and aunt, Margaret of Austria and Mary of Hungary.

Ferry Carondelet

Ferry Carondelet (also Ferricus Carondelet) (1473 – June 27, 1528) was a Habsburg diplomat, advisor to Margaret of Austria and abbot at Montbenoît.

Jean Lemaire de Belges

In 1504 he was attached to the court of Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, afterwards Regent of the Netherlands.

John Yonge

He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret of Savoy.

Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

Margarete - Maximilian I. Musik um 1500, Capilla Flamenca with La Caccia, Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst, Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis, 1998, ORF Shop CD 265 (2 CDs).

She is buried at Bourg-en-Bresse, in the magnificent mausoleum that she ordered for her second husband and herself.

Sancho de la Cerda, 1st Marquis of la Laguna

After the death of his wife, he married for a second time, with María de Villena y de Mello, Lady-in-waiting to Queen Margaret of Austria, with whom he had one daughter.


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