Maria of Spain, Archduchess of Austria

Maria von Spanien

Eldest daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Princess Isabella of Portugal. Born as an Infanta of Spain, she married her cousin Archduke Maximilian in 1548. She served as Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Bohemia, and Queen of Hungary from 1564 to 1576 when her husband became Holy Roman Emperor as Maximilian II. She was also involved in governance as Regent of Spain from 1548 to 1551 and again from 1558 to 1561. A devout Catholic, she sometimes held differing views on religious matters from her husband, who took a relatively tolerant stance. After her husband's death, she returned to Spain and made the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid her base of life. She bore 16 children and raised key figures of the House of Habsburg, including future Holy Roman Emperors Rudolf II and Matthias.

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Year	Maria von Spanien
1521	Italian Wars (Age: 7 years before birth, Period: 1551–1559, Location: Italy, France, Netherlands, etc.)
1528	Birth of Maria von Spanien (Period: June 21, 1528, Location: Madrid, Spain)
1529	Ottoman–Habsburg Wars (Period: 1566, Location: Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian border region, etc.)
1546	Schmalkaldic War (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1546–1547, Location: Holy Roman Empire, especially Central and Southern Germany)
1548	Assumption of Spanish Regency (Maria of Spain, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1548–1551, Location: Spain, Valladolid, Madrid, etc.) Participation in Spanish Governance (Maria of Spain, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1548–1551, Location: Spain) Marriage (Maria of Spain, Maximilian II, Age: 20 years old, Period: September 13, 1548, Location: Valladolid (Spain))
1552	Relocation to the Vienna Court (Maria of Spain, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1552, Location: Vienna (Austria))
1558	Re-assumption of Spanish Regency (Maria of Spain, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1558–1561, Location: Madrid (Spain))
1563	Coronation as Queen of Hungary (Maria von Habsburg, Age: 35 years old, Period: September 9, 1563, Location: Pozsony (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia))
1564	Activities as Holy Roman Empress (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1564–1576, Location: Vienna, Prague, etc.) Assumption as Holy Roman Empress (Maria of Spain, Age: 36 years old, Period: July 25, 1564, Location: Vienna (Austria))
1576	Involvement in Dynastic Formation for Her Sons (Maria of Spain, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1576–1603, Location: Holy Roman Empire, Spain) Death of Maximilian II (Age: 48 years old, Period: October 12, 1576, Location: Regensburg (Germany))
1580	Patronage of Tomás Luis de Victoria (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1580s–1603, Location: Madrid (Spain))
1582	Return to Spain (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1582, Location: Vienna to Madrid (Spain)) Later Years at the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (Maria of Spain, Age: 53 years old, Period: 1582–1603, Location: Madrid (Spain))
1593	Long Turkish War (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1593–1606, Location: Hungary, Croatia, Transylvania, Wallachia, etc.)
1603	Death of Maria von Spanien (Age: 74 years old, Period: February 26, 1603)

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Holy Roman Emperor	Maximilian von Habsburg Karl von Habsburg Ferdinand von Habsburg Rudolf von Habsburg Maria von Habsburg Maria von Spanien
German Reformation	Martin Luther Philip Melanchthon Andreas Karlstadt Thomas Müntzer Martin Bucer Johannes Oecolampadius Georg Spalatin
German Renaissance Art	Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbein Lucas Maler Lucas Sunder Albrecht Altdorfer Matthias Grünewald
Polish Science	Nicolaus Copernicus Marcin Bylica Jan Łaski Jan Kanty Broziński

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