Margaret of Austria

Margaret of Austria
born Jan. 10, 1480, Brussels
died Dec. 1, 1530, Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands

Habsburg ruler who was regent of the Netherlands (1507–15, 1519–30) for her nephew, the future emperor Charles V.

In 1497 she married the infante John, heir to the Spanish kingdoms, who died a few months later. In 1501 she married Philibert II, duke of Savoy, who died in 1504. Appointed regent by her father, Emperor Maximilian I, she pursued a pro-English foreign policy. In the 1520s she extended the Habsburg dominion in the northeastern Netherlands and negotiated the Treaty of Cambrai (1529), called the "Ladies' Peace," with Louise of Savoy (1494–1547), regent for Francis I.

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▪ regent of The Netherlands [1480-1530]
Spanish  Margarita De Austria  
born Jan. 10, 1480, Brussels
died Dec. 1, 1530, Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands

      Habsburg ruler who, as regent of the Netherlands (1507–15, 1519–30) for her nephew Charles (later the Holy Roman emperor Charles V), helped consolidate Habs-burg dominion there.

      The daughter of the Habsburg archduke Maximilian (later the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I) and his consort, Mary, duchess of Burgundy, Margaret was first betrothed in 1483 to the dauphin, later Charles VIII of France. After he repudiated her (1491), she married (April 1497) the infante John, heir to the Spanish kingdoms, who died only a few months later. Finally, in 1501, she married Philibert II, duke of Savoy, who died in 1504.

      In 1507 Maximilian appointed Margaret regent of the Netherlands for the infant Charles, the successor to her brother Philip I the Handsome, who had died in 1506. Her foreign policy was strongly pro-English, and she fought against France only when allied with Maximilian, England, and Spain. In both of her regencies, the Netherlands provinces were heavily taxed to support Habsburg military campaigns. In 1508 she represented Maximilian and her young nephew Ferdinand of Aragon (later Ferdinand I as Holy Roman emperor) at Cambrai (Cambrai, Treaty of), where disputes over French rights in the Burgundian Netherlands were resolved.

      Although being declared of age to rule in 1515, Charles reappointed Margaret to govern in the Netherlands while he was securing the German Kingship and the imperial succession for himself. The last decade of her rule saw the extension of Habsburg dominion in the northeastern Netherlands, including the gradual subjection of Friesland (1515–24); the annexation of the bishop of Utrecht's lands (1528); and campaigns against Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelderland, who was allied with Charles V's archfoe, Francis I of France. As Charles's representative at Cambrai in 1529, she negotiated the “Ladies' Peace” with Louise of Savoy, who spoke for her son Francis I.

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