Spanish Habsburg Queens

[Marc]

Emperor Maximlian's family

[Marc]

[Marc]

Maria of Austria

[Marc]

[Marc]

And Margarethe of Austria as a nun-sent to you by Trent!

[umigon]

Thank you very much to both Trent and Marc!


Rudolph didn't like his Spanish experience, he was much more liberal than his father, so imagine how liberal he was in comparison to Felipe! Nevertheless he continued to admire his uncle his entire life.


Ernest liked Spain, but he was bored here. He was an intelligent prince, but when he returned to Vienna he was already starting to suffer the Syphillis that would eventually make him semi-mad and that would eventually kill him aged 42.

Wenceslass died aged 17 and his death was devastating for both Felipe and Ana.

Albert became Felipe's favourite nephew and he treated him as if he was his own son. Being the fifth surviving son of Emperor Maximilian, Felipe looked for a good eclesiastical position for Albert. He got the title of Cardinal for him from the Pope, who knows, maybe one day Albert could become a Pope....? But Felipe, who loved so much Albert didn't force him to become ordained a priest in order to keep him as a suitable husband for his daughters. His children with Anne were feeble, whilst his daughters from Isabel de Valois were both healthy. As you may already know, Felipe finally chose Albert as a husband for his eldest daughter Isabel Clara Eugenia, who was heiress presumptive from 1598 to 1601!

[britt.25]

All of the Hapsburg family have big lips and a long jaw I wonder which ancestor they all inherited that look from :-/

Cymburgis of Masovia, Piast princess through whom the condition was brought into the Habsburg family. As the mother of Emperor Frederick III she became the ancestor of all later Habsburgs, as only his line of the family survived.
The famous Habsburg lip was a particular physical characteristic of most members of the family for many generations until the 18th century.  It can even be recognized in some of her distant descendants today, yet not quite as strongly.

Hello... do you have any special example for anyone of the Habsburgs today, who still has these features? I must say, I know a lot of pictures of todays Habsburgs and I never say this again , like in ealier times.
It´s a bit strange that the typical lip appeared for a such a long time again and again. Maris Theresia herself didn´t have it at all, but her grandfather Leopold I. had a very strong Habsburg-Face and Lip. The reason must be the repeated marriages between relatives...
After Maria Theresia there were still some with this type of face (very strongly Ferdinand I., bother of Marie Louise of Parma)
But do you have any special example for someone having it today? I don´t know any, but would be interested if you have any example!

[Grand_Duke]

Hello... do you have any special example for anyone of the Habsburgs today, who still has these features? I must say, I know a lot of pictures of todays Habsburgs and I never say this again , like in ealier times.
But do you have any special example for someone having it today? I don´t know any, but would be interested if you have any example!

It can even be recognized in some of her distant descendants today, yet not quite as strongly, e.g.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain:



What do you think? I think they have some reason!

[britt.25]

Thanks for the nice pictures!

Yes, may be. a bit...especially the profile-picture showes it a somewhere. It really reminds me a bit of Alfonso XIII, whose mother was a Habsburg from the line of Joseph Anton, palatine of Hungary, and Karl of Teschen...

[Yseult]

To marry for dinastical reasons was a sacred duty for the princess of blood, but Marie Louise´s story is specially painful. I can´t imagine the moment she found herself sharing her intimacy with Charles...short, lame, disfigured, mentally retard and epileptic. I know she was under a great pressure, and I understand why she became deeply depressed. At these times, the people of Madrid dedicated not fair poems to the french queen:
                               Parid, bella flor de lis,
                               que en aflicción tan extraña,
                               si parís, parís a España
                               si no parís, a Paris.

I can not translate it, but it means that people blamed the queen because she had not borne any children after years of marriage.

[archiduque_Karlos]

http://www.wga.hu/art/r/rizi/4autodaf.jpg

In the picture we can see Carlos II together with the queen Maria Luisa and Mariana of Austria sat in the balcony.
The act is a "auto de fe" celebrated in the plaza mayor of Madrid.