Anna of Austria (1528-1590)

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Anna of Austria (1528-1590)

Anna of Austria (Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, July 7 1528 – Munich

Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, October 16 1590) was the daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Ferdinand I was a Central European monarch from the Habsburg. He was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1526....
and his wife Anna of Bohemia and Hungary

Anna of Bohemia and Hungary

Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, also sometimes known as Anna Jagellonica was, by marriage to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans and later Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of the Romans....
(1503–1547).

She was engaged several times as a child, first to Prince Theodor of Bavaria (1526–1534), then to Charles of Orleans (1522–1545), but both died young.

Anna finally married on July 4, 1546 in Regensburg

Regensburg

Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen River rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube....
at the age of 17 , Duke Albert V, Duke of Bavaria

Albert V, Duke of Bavaria

Albert V, Duke of Bavaria , , was Duke of Bavaria from 1550 until his death. He was born in Munich to William IV, Duke of Bavaria and Marie of Baden-Sponheim....
, the brother of her first fiancé. The wedding gift was 50,000 Guilder.

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Anna of Austria (Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, July 7 1528 – Munich

Munich

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Anna of Bohemia and Hungary

Regensburg

Albert V, Duke of Bavaria

Trausnitz Castle

Trausnitz Castle is a medieval castle situated in Landshut, Bavaria in Germany. It was the home of the Wittelsbach dynasty, and it served as their ducal residence for lower Bavaria from 1255–1503, and later as hereditary rulers of the whole of Bavaria....
in Landshut, until Albert became Duke.

Anna and Albert had great influence on the spiritual life in the Duchy, and enhanced the reputation of Munchen as a city of art, by founding several musea and the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek.
Anna and Albert were also patrons to the painter Hans Müelich, and composer Orlando di Lasso.

Children

Karl (7 September 1547 – 7 December 1547)
William V
William V, Duke of Bavaria

William V, Duke of Bavaria , called the Pious, was List of rulers of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597....
(1548–1626)
Ferdinand (20 January 1550 – 30 January 1608)
Maria Anna (1551–1608) married Archduke Charles II of Austria
Maximiliana Maria (4 July 1552 – 11 July 1614)
Friedrich (26 July 1553 – 18 April 1554)
Ernst
Ernest of Bavaria

Ernest of Bavaria was Prince-elector archbishop of the Archbishopric of Cologne from 1583 to 1612 as successor of the expelled Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg....
(17 December 1554 – 17 February 1612), Archbishop of Cologne
Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....

Ancestors

**Anna's ancestors in three generations**
Anna of Austria	Father: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I was a Central European monarch from the Habsburg. He was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1526....	Paternal Grandfather: Philip I of Castile Philip I of Castile Philip I , known as the Handsome or the Fair, was the son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother Mary of Burgundy he inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands and through his wife Juana of Castile he briefly succeeded to the Kingdom of Castile....	Paternal Great-grandfather: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg was Holy Roman Empire from 1508 until his death, but had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his reign, from circa 1483....
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Mary of Burgundy Mary of Burgundy Mary, called Mary the Rich , was suo jure Duke of Burgundy from 1477 – 1482. As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477....
		Paternal Grandmother: Joanna of Castile Joanna of Castile Joanna , called Joanna the Mad queen regnant as Kings of Castile of Crown of Castile jointly with her husband Philip I of Castile and later also as List of Aragonese monarchs of Crown of Aragon jointly with her son the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor....	Paternal Great-grandfather: Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand the Catholic was king of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia , Sardinia and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, de jure uxoris King of Crown of Castile and then Regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of his mentally unstable daughter Joanna the Mad....
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Isabella of Castile
	Mother: Anna of Bohemia and Hungary Anna of Bohemia and Hungary Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, also sometimes known as Anna Jagellonica was, by marriage to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Romans and later Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of the Romans....	Maternal Grandfather: Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary Vladislas II, also known as Ladislaus Jagiellon ; was King of Bohemia from 1471 and King of Hungary from 1490 until his death in 1516. He was also a knight of the Order of the Dragon....	Maternal Great-grandfather: Casimir IV of Poland Casimir IV Jagiellon Casimir IV Jagiellon of the Jagiellon dynasty, was List of Lithuanian rulers from 1440, and List of Polish monarchs from 1447, until his death....
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth of Bohemia Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505) Elisabeth of Austria , , was a Poland-Lithuanian queen. In Polish language, she is known as Elzbieta Rakuszanka and Elzbieta Austriaczka, both names meaning Elisabeth of Austria, or Elzbieta Habsburzanka, meaning Elisabeth of Habsburg....
		Maternal Grandmother: Anna of Foix-Candale Anna of Foix-Candale Anna of Foix was the third Queen consort of King Vladislaus II of Hungary, and his only wife to produce an heir....	Maternal Great-grandfather: Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Catherine de Foix