Margarita Teresa of Austria facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Margarita Teresa of Austria |
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1671 portrait of the Holy Roman press with her daughter Maria Antonia by Benjamin Block.
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| Holy Roman Empress; German Queen; Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia; Archduchess consort of Austria |
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| Tenure | 25 Aprile 1666 – 12 March 1673 | ||||
| Born | 12 July 1651 Royal Alcazar, Madrid, Spain |
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| Died | 12 March 1673 (aged 21) Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria |
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| Burial | Imperial Crypt, Vienna, Austria | ||||
| Spouse | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | ||||
| Issue | Archduke Ferdinand Wenceslaus Maria Antonia, Electress o Bavaria Airchduke John Leopold Airchduchess Maria Anna Scholastica |
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| House | Habsburgs of Spain (by birth) Habsburgs of Austria (by marriage |
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| Father | Philip IV of Spain | ||||
| Mother | Mariana of Austria | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
Margarita Teresa of Austria, Infanta of Spain (Margarita María Teresa; born 12 July 1651 – died 12 March 1673) by marriage, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Germany, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.
Biography
She was the daughter of King Felipe IV of Spain and the older full-sister of King Carlos II of Spain, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. She is the central figure in the famous Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. She was the subject of many of his later paintings.
She was also a half-sister of Maria Theresa of Austria (the wife of Louis XIV of France) In Austria she was known as Margarete Theresia.
She is her father's favourite child. He called her "my joy" . She was an Archduchess of Austria by birth as well as by marriage and an Infanta of Spain. She was Margarita Teresa of Austria, but not "of Spain" due to being a member of the House of Habsburg.
Marriage
She married her uncle, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor an on 5 December 1666, the solemn entry of the Infanta in Vienna took place and the official marriage ceremony was celebrated seven days later, on 12 December. Throughout their marriage Margarita Teresa called her husband uncle.
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Images for kids
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Infanta Margarita Teresa, at age of 14, in mourning for her father. The Infanta left Spain to become Holy Roman Empress the same year.
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A 1666 publication flyer promoting Infanta Margarita, the future bride of her uncle Emperor Leopold
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Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress (1653), Velázquez, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Infanta Margarita Teresa (1655), Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Infanta Margarita Teresa in silver dress (1656), Velázquez, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Las Meninas (1656), Velázquez, Prado Museum, Madrid
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Infanta Margarita Teresa in blue dress (1659), by Velázquez, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Infanta Margarita Teresa in pink dress (1660) by Velázquez or Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Prado Museum, Madrid
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Full-length portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa, the Empress (1666), by Gerard Du Chateau, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
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See also
In Spanish: Margarita Teresa de Austria para niños
