#eleonore of austria

[tiny-librarian]

Portrait of Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria, youngest surviving daughter of Leopold I and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg.

[ldagence-royal]

The Habsburg Family! The Archduchesses Eleonore and Gloria of Habsburg Attend the Opening of the Exhibition Olafur Eliasson on December 15, 2014 in Paris, France

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Nur In Der Wiener Luft, Eleonore Schwarz | Austria, Eurovision Song Contest Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1962

[rmelster]

Someone should truly speak bout the “later wife effect” that seems to have haunted historical figures since times long forgotten.

To break it down to you, what I call the “later wife effect” occurs when a male historical figure suddenly looses his beloved wife (most of the times, his first one) in an untimely and tragic manner -either by a childbirth gone wrong, an accident or a sudden illness-, turning the once mirthful husband into a grief-stricken widower. Perhaps because he lacks succession from said wife, because he has to provide spares to his heir, or even because an alliance is needed, he is forced to marry again; but the love never arises fully, their marriage turns into a bound of duty, and no matter what she does, or how loved she is outside their marriage: the later wife will forever be under the shadow of the first, a perfect idol, immortalised by her early death.

The “later wife effect” knows various levels:

In 1673, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, lost his beloved Margaret Theresa when she was yet to turn twenty two and with child. Their seven years of union had produced four children, but only a daughter lived when Margaret Theresa died, and he went on to marry twice again; and even though he would sorrowfully remark that neither Claudia Felicitas of Austria or Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, his following brides, were “not like my only Margaretha”, his marriages were remarkably happy and so was he. This could be one of the mildest examples.

The middle ground would be when the marriage with the later wife is dutiful and polite, but loveless. Frederick William II of Hesse married Alexandra Nikolaevna, but soon lost her due to complications of childbirth. He would remarry nine years later to the beautiful and lively Anna of Prussia, and even though they eventually had six children, their marriage was notably cold and unhappy. Leopold I of Belgium widowed of his wife, Charlotte of Wales, soon after she gave birth to a dead son; fifteen years later, know king of Belgium, he took Louise-Marie of Orléans hand in marriage; she was shy, delicate, witty and partook in many charitable causes, earning the love of the Belgians, and the respect of her husband, with whom she had a fruitful and tranquil union; but Leopold would not be faithful to her, committing adultery with a much younger Arcadie Claret, who was said to resemble the long gone princess Charlotte. She perished a year after he had a son with Claret, and her dead did not stop the relationship between the two of them.

More unhappy cases of this effect would be those of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his descendant, Joseph II. When still an archduke, Maximilian married Mary of Burgundy and loved her much, a love so legendary it lived through generations in the art commissioned by their descendants. But the fairytale would come to an abrupt end when, after five years of marriage, Mary would find her untimely dead while pregnant with their fourth child, after her horse threw her off the saddle. Maximilian was most heartbroken and, after a failed marriage attempt with the young duchess Anne of Brittany, he would wed Bianca Maria Sforza. The empress from Milan was deemed “more beautiful than Mary” by Maximilian, but neither her beauty not her many charms of her would soften his callous attitude towards his wife. Having endured a miscarriage during the first months of their union, Bianca Maria, the once most sought after princess in Europe, had become a ghost in her own court, severely neglected by her husband, who refused to attend to her own funeral nor dedicate a gravestone for her. Similarly, after the traumatic passing of his wife, Isabella of Parma, Joseph II was forced to remarry to Maria Josepha of Bavaria, who he did not found as attractive as the late archduchess. He grew so disgusted of her that the same devoted husband that has been by Isabella’s bedside now commanded to put a wall between his balcony and hers, so that he could not see her, distressing old servants in the palace so much with his cold attitude that some left. When, after two years of marriage, her life was robbed by smallpox -the same ailment that had taken Isabella’s life four years before-, Joseph declared she had been worthy of respect and that he repented his coldness. However, he refused to visit her bedside and did not appear during her burial.

This should not be confused with what I call “the younger wife effect”, which takes place when a widowed historical figure, who had long remained unwed by choice, suddenly takes marriage to a beautiful and much younger person that is described to bring happiness to his once lonely and dull life. This would perfectly be exemplified with prince Maximilian of Saxony’s marriage with princess Maria Luisa Carlota of Parma, almost twenty one years since the passing of his wife (princess Carolina of Parma).

[marianadecarlos]

I came back for more habsburg talk . as usual ) not actually invested in spanish habsburgs but i really like the austrian ones .

Opinions about Maria Anna of Neuburg ? I actually really love her sister Eleonore Magdalene ( mainly known as the wife of Leopold I ) , she was so cool

Are you into Habsburgs apart from the classics™ . My favourite one is Francis II and Joseph II ... but eh i just guessed you were more into very early modern monarchs only ?

His second wife was Maria Anna or Mariana of Neuburg (she has the same name as Mariana of Austria, I wonder how they detour confusion every time someone pronounces their name)

Charles tried his best to respect her but Maria Anna was Selfish, ambitious, cold, and harsh. She cared more about her political ambition than Charles. She was only nice to Charles in public or when she needed something which led Charles to dislike her instantly. Maria Anna bonded with Mariana of Austria at first but that relationship quickly soured. These two have opposite views in terms of politics and personality. Maria Anna was jealous of her sister Eleonore Magdalene, She expressed her jealousy in her letters and complained to her parents how she wanted a bigger dowry, especially after finding out that Marie Louise of Orleans received a higher dowry than her. Her parents responded by telling her that Marie Louise had a bigger dowry when she was alive because her family is more powerful than theirs and if she wanted a bigger dowry, she must have a son. Maria Anna liked Leopold the first and always complimented him in her letters. The country at that time was suffering economically because of the Little Ice Age resulting in failing crops. Maria Anna stole expensive jewelry and money from the Royal treasury which made both Queen Mariana and Charles furious. She demanded a higher pension. Her attitude was unbearable for everyone. She was forced to sell her jewelry for the loans she owed and to maintain her luxury lifestyle. As years passed by Maria Anna failed to be pregnant. She was claimed to be pregnant on different occasions but no she never did. Charles then gave up hope for a child. Maria Anna’s and Queen Mariana's fights got worse, To the point that they personally insulted one another. In one of these fights, Maria Anna jabs personal insults at Queen Mariana, Queen Mariana responds by reminding Maria Anna that she became queen because of her. That fight was so heated that Charles had to interfere to defend his mother from her. In 1696, Charles’s mother Mariana of Austria passed away devastating him. For Maria Anna, She was happy because no one would interfere with her plans or she thought. With the death of Queen Mariana of Austria, Maria Anna now advanced into the political foreground. However, the Spanish court rejected her. After Mariana of Austria's death, she tried to distance Charles from his ministers and insert her influence on him. Charles and Maria Anna often argued about the succession. She wanted Archduke Charles (Leopold I's son) Her policies were not great resulting in riots in Madrid. The rioters entered the palace hoping to see the King and address their situation. She went to the balcony to address the people yet they did not listen. Charles II went to the balcony and the people apologized and asked him for forgiveness. Charles II responded "I apologize to you for not knowing your suffering much former"

Maria Anna and Charles contracted an illness resulting in them having to shave their heads and wearing wigs.

After Charles II died, she was exiled by Louis XIV in Bayonne. Louis XIV exiled her because Louis did not want her to have influence on Felipe V. She negotiated with Archduke Charles during the war of Spanish succession. Her years of exile are filled with loneliness. Maria Anna during those years felt alone. During her exile, she encountered her niece Elizabeth of Farnese. Her friendship with her niece was nice to read. She would give Elizabeth Farnese advice and express her concerns in letters. This friendship resulted in her returning to Spain where she gets to spend the rest of her life. Overall I feel bad for her because she was blamed for not providing Charles an Heir. At the same time, I did not like how she treated people, especially Charles. The only thing I like about Maria Anna is loyal to Charles and never sleeps with anyone else. She took care of him when he was ill.

2. I am into Habsburgs apart from the classics my favorites are Maria Theresa of Austria (Marie Antoinette's Mother), Marie Louise (Napoleon's second wife), and Joseph II (Maria Theresa's son, Empress Elizabeth or Sisi

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This tribute edit is for #louisxvii And his family members of France and I might have forgotten others in heaven rest in peace to those who have died Louis XVII, Louis XVIII, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Louis XIV, Coco the dog of Louis XVII and his sister Marie-Thérèse, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, Louis Joseph Xavier François, Jean Amilcar, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Louis, Dauphin of France, Charles X of France, Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène of France, Maria Josepha Karolina Eleonore Franziska Xaveria of Saxony, Madame Louise-Elisabeth of France, Maria Carolina of Austria, John II of France, Armand Gagné, Alexander Kucharsky, Rigaud, Hyacinthe dit aussi Rigau y Ros, (Perpignan, 1659 - Paris, 1743), Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor, Robert, Count of Clermont, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, y'all rest well up in heaven All angels All angels All angels All angels All angels All angels up in heaven rest in peace

[anothanobody]

It is interesting to see people speculating on the number of children Barbarian King Eren and Empress Mikasa would have. Because yes, the story has breeding kink undertones from the fanfic point of view. And we did have real life cases of royal couples who had astonishing amounts of children. Reining Empress Maria Theresia of Austria had no less than sixteen children with her husband Franz I Stephen. King Edward I of England and Eleonor of Castile had at least fourteen. However, if you look at Roman Imperial family trees, you’ll find most of them didn’t even actually have biological offspring.

I never found a satisfactory explanation for this. We have full records of kings in Antiquity with many sons, and later Byzantine Emperors – who are, in fact, Roman Emperors two, but categorized differently – didn’t follow this childless pattern. This lack of biological progeny wasn’t actually a problem in the Roman world because, even though it was named Empire, they didn’t follow family and succession traditions like modern European countries. The system we think about, in which the eldest son of the king succeeds him and is in turn succeeded by his eldest son (or daughter, nowadays) originated from the Franks in the Early Middle Ages and was slowly adapted by Europe as a whole. Many countries never had such a succession system: Byzantium, China, Persia, the Caliphates, Japan, the Mongols, and so forth, never used it. Great Britain, use this system with a very particular way of counting children, remounting to the 18th Century succession dispute. Russia’s successor was chosen by the previous monarch, which led to innumerous coups and civil wars in the 17th and 18th Centuries until the Pauline Laws which established the Frankish system in 1797.

Ancient Rome slowly walked towards something akin to the Frankish succession as the Emperor accumulated more and more institutional power during the Dominate, which is exactly the period we are talking about. This coincided, funnily enough, with the decadence and dissolution of the Empire, even if the Frankish succession, however problematic in theory, proved to be the most stable model. Roman family structures involved both the biological family, the clan you belonged to, and the adoption of children. And adoption was usually what Emperors did when they wanted a worthy successor, even if they had biological children of their own. So you’d have a 50 something Emperor adopting a 40 something general or politician. In sum, family composition and succession laws worked very differently in the Roman world. What we call the imperial dynasties are usually connected by blood but not necessarily emperor to emperor, but normally through the marriage of sons and daughters from one another, even if they didn’t ascend the throne, their sons could. The very same Theodosian Dynasty ruling in the East and West at this time in History, although much more similar to the succession laws we know today, actually co-reigned with the Valentinian Dynasty in the West. Both families kept the throne between themselves through many marriages. It is not something we, used to European succession traditions, would be very familiar with.

So how many children would Empress Mikasa and Barbarian Eren have? No idea. Historically, very, very few, if any at all hahaha! Attila did have three sons that we know of, and probably had more unrecorded children, specially daughters. Is it possible to have them have 16 children? Yes, why not? Mikasa’s position as reigning Empress is entirely new as well, it could be the start of a new reality for the imperial family. Ancient Rome had many famous and influential woman, but only one ever came to directly rule the Empire as regent, Galla Placidia, mother of Honoria and Valentinian III. Later Byzantium would have influential consorts like Aelia Pulcheria and Theodora, but the Roman world would only know a reigning Empress in 797 with the usurper Irene of Athens. Later they would have legitimate Empresses, like Theodora I the Blessed and Theodora II Porphyrogenita, Eudokia Makrembolitissa and Zoe. Since Rome never had a proper reigning Empress, we could imagine how it would be like. If we go by later Byzantine tradition, however, Mikasa would be the key to legitimacy to become Emperor, and whoever she married would be automatically Emperor – but she, herself, wouldn’t have a claim to rule on  her own, and most likely would only act as a regent while she’s not married. Here, however, I think it is safe to say Eren and Mikasa co-rule. But for her time, Mikasa’s (and Eren’s) position is something unheard of in the History!

my beautiful history anon came backkk😭😭😭

honestly i think the romans with the adoption and selection had it best, if them in their own position of power was good and acclaimed it makes sense for them and the people around to choose and the adopt or have them marry their daughters. to mold the next emperor that at least had the same values. when it’s about family to family it gets risky even more when it’s a birth right for the kid. i’d say they are not entirely sure they want their child but nonetheless teach them the ways of ruling and if he grows up to be a good one then no problem if not there’s the siblings or other people.

i think the fact the people wanted mikasa in this au to be the empress it’s the point of conversion. things are not the same anymore. i think we could say that’s where we deviate a bit. and thinks could change. how many kids? i don’t know honestly. we’ll see as we go, but i want miksa to tear herself open too many times. birth is dangerous and painful after all.

i love you tho history anon. your manuscripts of knowledge you send us are a breath of fresh air 😮‍💨

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icons of Daphné Patakia in Versailles (s3) as Eleonore of Austria

[historywithlaura]

ELEONORE

Archduchess of Austria

(born 1534 - died 1594)

pictured above is a portrait of the Archduchess of Austria, from c. 1555

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SERIES - On this day August Edition: Eleonore died on 5 August 1594.

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ELEONORE was born in 1534, in Vienna. She was one of the daughters of Ferdinánd I, King Bohemia (also Ferdinand I, King of Hungary) and Anna Jagiellon, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia. She was a member of the HOUSE OF HABSBURG.

By 1556 her uncle Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor abdicated and her father succeeded him, having been crowned as Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1558.

So because of the division of the Habsburg possessions in the 1550s her part of the family became known as the Austrian Habsburg branch.

As every Habsburg she was an avid Roman Catholic and it is said that she did not accept to marry a Protestant. That may have been the reason why she married very late for the time she lived in, aged 28 in 1561.

She had three children (check the list below) with her husband GUGLIELMO, who has the Duke of Mantua and was also Guglielmo X, Marquis of Montferrat. He was the second son of Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Margherita Palaeologa, Marquise of Monferrat.

After her wedding she became the DUCHESS OF MANTUA and MARQUISE OF MONFERRAT.

In addition, when her brother Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor elevated the Marquisate of Monferrat do Duchy in 1573 her husband became the first Duke of Montferrat and she became the DUCHESS OF MONFERRAT.

Her husband died in 1587 an was succeeded as Duke of Mantua and Montferrat by their only son Vincenzo I. And as her son was already married, she became know as the DOWAGER DUCHESS OF MANTUA AND MONTFERRAT.

The Dowager Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat died aged 59, on 5 August 1594, in Mantua.

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ELEONORE and her husband GUGLIELMO had three children...

Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua - husband first of Princess Margherita (Farnese) of Parma and second of Princess Eleonora (of Medici) of Tuscany;

Princess Margherita of Mantua - wife of Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara; and

Princess Anna Juliana of Mantua - wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Further Austria.

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When her grandson Vincenzo II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat died in 1627, the main line of the House of Gonzaga became extinct in the male line.

His death led to the War of the Mantuan Succession, fought between two cadet branches of the family that did not descend from her. The Gonzaga-Nevers branch (supported by France) won the Succession War against the Dukes of Guastalla (supported by the Austrian and the Spanish Habsburgs).

At that time the only remaining member of the main line of the House of Gonzaga was her granddaughter Maria, who was married into the Gonzaga-Nevers branch and was recognized as Duchess of (what was letf of) Monferrat.

Maria's grandson Ferdinando Carlo lost both Duchies in 1708, as the Austrian Habsburgs took control over Mantua and the Savoyard Kings of Sardinia finally annexed all Montferrat.

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Check my post about ELEONORE's mother!

Her mother was Anna, a Princess of Hungary and Bohemia from her birth in 1503.

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history + grandmothers of Europe (requested by anonymous)

[tiny-librarian]

Royal Birthdays for today, August 22nd:

Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, 1412

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, 1684

Milan I, King of Serbia, 1854

Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, 1860

[ldagence-royal]

Eleonore of Habsburg-Lothringen. Model and Member of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen. Great-Granddaughter of the last Emperor of Austria, Charles I of Austria

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Fun facts about Philip II of Spain, his family members and their relationship

Philip and his sisters María and Juana were very close, and relied on each other greatly even when being apart. Both sisters acted as regents of Spain during Philip’s absences: María - from 1548 to 1551, Juana - from 1554 to 1559.

They had two recognised illegitimate siblings - half-sister Margaret of Parma and half-brother Don Juan of Austria. About the latter's existence Philip found out only after the death of their father who had kept it in secret.

María spied on her husband on Philip's behalf.

Philip opened and copied his wife Elisabeth de Valois’s letters to her mother Catherine de Medici.

Philip wasn't fond of his aunt Mary of Hungary but felt great affection for uncle Ferdinand. Juana liked neither Mary of Hungary nor Eleonor of Austria - once after their visit she wrote to Ruy Gómez that they were the worst company and she is glad that they are gone.

Charles often criticized his youngest daughter Juana and treated her harshly. He described her as very haughty and accused of leading a disorderly life, opposed her candidature as regent of Spain, ordered her to leave the court after Philip’s departure from Spain in 1548 and forbade to see Maria, and refused to receive her when he lived on retirement in Yuste.

Philip attended the births of at least three of his children - Isabel Clara Eugenia, Catalina Micaela and Fernando.

Philip and Elisabeth named their eldest daughter after St Eugene because they believed that they had conceived her at night after Elisabeth had venerated the relics of the saint.

Margaret of Parma together with her son Alessandro visited Philip in England and spent a few weeks there in 1557.  Her son was to lead the army of Flanders to invade England in 1588.

Source: Felipe II: La biografía definitiva by Geoffrey Parker

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Eleonore Schwarz - Nur in der Wiener Luft

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✵ July 20, 2020 ✵

Eleonore von Habsburg & Jerome d'Ambrosio

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Marina Salas as Leonor de Austria in Carlos Rey Emperador