The Habsburgs

Joanna of Castile with her 6 children

To Joanne's left Eleanor of Austria Queen of France. Charles I King of Spain and V Holy Roman Emperor. To Joanne's right Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor, Isabella Queen or Ex Queen of Denmark (her husband was diposed), Mary Queen of Hungary, and Catherine Queen of Portugal.

Joanna of Castile Trastámara, Queen of Spain
Born: Nov 6, 1479
Died: April 12, 1555
Reigned Castile and Leon: Nov 26, 1504 to April 12, 1555
Reigned Aragon: Jan 23, 1562 to April 12, 1555
Note: She became heir to the thrones of Castile and Aragon after the death of both her older brother and sister and the death of her sister’s son April 19, 1500. She married Philip the Handsome Castile Oct 20, 1496 but unlike her older Sisters 1st marriage and her brothers happy marriages hers was unhappy and she became known as Joanna the Mad whether this was due to her husbands cheating or his and her fathers constant attempts to usurp her rights to her mothers throne or because she had inherited a mental illness like her maternal grandmother. She had 6 children 2 were sons and the famous Charles V. In 1509 She was confined in the Santa Clara convent in Tordesillas, near Valladolid in Castile by her father when she refused to yield the government of Castile to him were she remained in confinement even after her father's death and was kept there by her children until her death. She was said to have blue eyes and hair between Strawberry-blonde and auburn like her mother and sister Catherine.

Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal, then Queen of France
Born: Nov 15, 1498
Died: Feb 25, 1558
Reigned as Queen of Portugal: July 16 1518 - Dec 13 1521
Reigned as Queen of France: July 4 1530 - March 31 1537
When she was young her family tried to marry her to Henry VIII whom she was betrothed to but when his father died he instead decided to marry Katherine of Aragon. King Christian II of Denmark wanted to marry her but her family refused as they saw her as to valuble. Her family then tried to marry her to first King Louis XII then to Francis I of France, then tried to marry her to King Sigismund I of Poland and then she was proposed as a possible bride to Antoine Duke of Lorraine in 1510, all unsuccessful. She married Manuel I King of Portugal on July 16 1518, the marriage was arranged by her brother to avoid the possibility of Portuguese assistance for any rebellion in Castile. She had one surviving daughter by him.
Child 2: Infanta Maria, Lady of Viseu (June 18, 1521 - Oct 10, 1577) - who considered as a possible second wife for Philip II before he married Mary I of England.
Her husband Manuel died in 1521 from the Plague. In 1523 she was betrothed to Charles III, Duke of Bourbon but it never took place. She became betrothed to Francis I while he held prisoner in Spain. On July 4 1530 she married King Francis I as part of a peace treaty. Her marriage to Francis was childless, very likely because Francis did not want any of his children to have loyalties to the Habsburgs. Her marriage to Francis was part of the treaty of 1529 called La Paz de las Damas. She had no political power and only performed as Queen at Social Occasions and performed Charity and provided communication with Charles. She also raised Francis' youngest daughters Madeleine and Margaret. After the death of Francis she returned and spent her remaining years in Spain. She in 1556 retired with her sister Mary to live in Jarandilla de la Vera and tried to get her daughter Maria to come live with her but she refused

Charles Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain, King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Burgundy and ruler of the low countries
Born: February 2, 1500 Ghent, Flanders
Died: September 21, 1558 (From Malaria)
Co-Reigned Castile: January 23 1516 - January 16 1556 (he co-reigned Castile with his mother until she died in 1555)
Co-reigned Aragon: January 23 1516 - January 16 1556 (he co-reigned Aragon with his mother until she died in 1555)
Reigned as Holy Roman Emperor: June 28 1519 - August 27 1556
He was the son of Joanna of Spain and Philip Habsburg. When his mother's only brother then her older sister died he became heir to both Castile and Aragon, although his father in law tried to prevent him from inheriting Aragon, and Kingdom of Naples and Sicily by remarrying and having a son who died. He became the most powerful ruler in all of Europe. He was betrothed in 1524 to his cousin Mary Tudor Princess of Wales daughter of his aunt Katherine of Aragon who wished to unite England with forever, but he broke it off and married his cousin Isabella of Portugal on March 11 1526. In 1527 he sacked Rome and held the Pope prisoner and placed pressure on the pope to not annul the marriage of his aunt Katherine to Henry VIII. He spent a large part of his reign at war with France, in 1529 as part of a peace agreement with France he had his sister Eleanor marry King Francis of France and took his sons Francis and Henri prisoner for 2 years. In 1539 while away his wife died after giving birth to a son who also died, he was devestated by her death an dressed in black for the rest of his life and never remarried. In 1544 he seigned the peace treaty of Crepy with King Francis and in it Francis' youngest son Charles could be betrothed to eithter his daughter Maria and part of her dowery would be either the Netherlands or the Low Countries of Franche-Comté or another bride would be his niece Anne of Austria and her dowery would be Milan. Either case would have made Francis' youngest son just as powerful ruler as his older brother the dauphin Henri and possibly have the younger son support him which would have caused problems, but Francis' son died before any decision on which girl would be his bride. He suffered from the Habsburg Jaw or more accuratly called Mandibular Prognathism and suffered from epilepsy and afflicted by gout. When he abdicated he gave all the Habsburg lands to his brother and the Spanish lands including Naples and Sicily, Milan (Lambardy), the territories in the New World, and the Netherlands to his son. He was Charles/Karl V Holy Roman Emperor and Charles/Carlos I King of Spain.

Isabella of Austria, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Born: July 18, 1501
Died: July 19, 1526
Reigned as Queen of Denmark and Norway: Aug 12 1515 - 1523
Reigned as Queen of Sweden: 1520 - 1521
She spent her childhood in the netherlands under the tutorage of her paternal aunt Margaret. After her family rejected King Christian from marrying her older sister Eleanor, she was instead betrothed and married to him. She was married by proxy to King Christian II of Denmark and Norway on July 11 1514 she arrived in Denmark on Aug 12 1515. The relationship with her new family was cool during her first years of marriage and her husband refused to give up his mistress for her whose mother had more influence then her at court, this made her brother angery and caused diplomatic strife, it wasn't until after Christian's mistress died did their relationship improve and her relationship with his former mistress' mother improved and both of them acted as advisors to Christian. In 1520 she became queen of Sweden and her husband asked the council to give sweden to her should he die when his children were minors. 1523 her husband was diposed and they spent the rest of the years traveling, during that year while in Saxony she became interested in Luthor's teachings and was sympathetic to the protestant cause although she never offically converted, In 1524 when she visited Nürnberg she received communion in the Protestant way, which so enraged her birth family that her husband decided that she needed to hide her Protestant views for political reasons. In 1525 she caught a serious illness which worsened as she traveled and she died in 1526. She recieved both Catholic and Protestant communion although her family declared that she had died a Catholic. She had 6 children with her husband only 2 lived to adulthood
Child 1: John (Feb 21 1518 - Aug 11 1532)
Child 2 & 3: Twin sons - Philip (July 4 1519 - 1520), Maximilian (July 4 1519 - 1519)
Child 4: Dorothea (Nov 10 1520 - May 31 1580) married in 1535 to Frederick II, Elector Palatine but they had no children.
Child 5: Christina (Nov 1521 - Dec 10 1590) in 1533 she married Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan, then in 1541 she married Francis I Duke of Lorraine and had 2 daughters and a son, all survived to adulthood. In 1538 Henry VIII wanted to Marry her but she rejected him.
Child 6: Stillborn Son (Jan 1523)

Ferdinand Habsburg, Archduke
Born: March 10, 1503
Died: July 25, 1564
Was the younger brother of Charles V who after his brother abdicated became Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor in 1556 and Charles abdicated the title Archduke of Austria to him in 1521 after he became HRE and he ruled the Austrian Hereditary Lands. He married Anne of Bohemia daughter of the King of Hungary on May 25, 1521 and in 1526 when her brother died he claimed the throne of Hungary. He and his wife had 15 children with only 2 dieing in childhood.

Mary Habsburg, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
Born: Sep 18 1505
Died: Oct 18 1558
Reigned as Queen: July 22 1515 - Aug 29 1526
Her birth was a difficult one and it took her mother a month to recover. On March 17 1506 her grandfather promised her hand to King Vladislaus II of Hungary first born son and both rulers agreed that one of her brothers should marry Vladislaus daughter. In 1514
On July 22 1515 she married King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (July 1 1506 - Aug 29 1526) She didn't get to Hungary until 1521, In 1522 when she and Louis met they fell in love. By 1525 she had political power in Hungary. During her time as Queen she attracted the interests of Martin Luthor who dedicated 4 psalms to her, which did not please Ferdinand her brother, she like her sister Isabella became interested in his teachings but due to pressure from her brother turned away from it. She spent most of her free time with her husband riding and hunting in the open country near the palace. She and Louis ruled a country that was deeply divided and in 1526 the ottoman empire attacted. On Aug 29 1526 while fleeing from a battle gone wrong (Battle of Mohács) Louis was fleeing through a marsh and he slipped from his frightened horse and drowned. They had no Children. She was devestated but also spent the year securing the election of her brother Ferdinand of Hungary. From 1531 to 1555 she was governor of the Netherlands. In 1526 after her sister Isabella's death she was given guardianship of her daughters Christina and Dorothea, in 1532 when her brother Charles granted the Duke of Milan the right to marry the then 11 year old Christina and allow the immediate consumation she was very opposed to it but he would not listen, she managed to postpone the marriage until september and prevented them from leaving until March 1533, after became ill and requested of Charles to resign as governor but he did not allow it. In 1538 Henry VIII wished to marry the widowed Christina and Charles urged her to negotiate the marriage but she did not favor the union and delayed it, the negotiations were ended in 1539 when Henry VIII was excommunicated. She ofthen had clash of wills with Charles, In 1531 he warned her that if his parent, wife, child or sibling became a follower of Luther, he would consider them his greatest enemy, she was forced to supress protestantism in the Netherlands but she enforced her brother's laws on religion as little as possible and was ofthen accused of protecting Protestants on several occasions. In 1555 she had to mediate between her brothers when Charles abdicated and left the government of the Netherlands to his son Philip on objections from Ferdinand, she after learning the info informed Charles that she too would resign and rejected both Charles and son's attempts to change her mind and after retiring she lived in Castile with Eleanor until her sister's death.

Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal
Born: Jan 14 1507
Died: Feb 12 1578
Reigned as Queen: July 22 1515 - Aug 29 1526
She was born 4 months after her father died. Unlike her siblings who were placed in the care of her paternal aunt when her grandfather imprisoned her mother in 1509 she managed to keep her with her and remained with her until Charles freed her to marry on Feb 10 1525 to King João III Portugal (also called John) her cousin as he was the son of her aunt Maria of Aragon. Only 2 (her daughter Maria Manuela and Crown Prince João) of her 9 children survived infancy, her daughter Maria died after giving birth to a son who died without heirs, her son died in his teens but had one son who left no heir when he died. She has no descendants.



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