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Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria: a Queen of France who never remarried

By Olivia LonguevilleIn Tudor & Renaissance Blog, Valois blogPosted July 5, 2020

Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, one of the daughters of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife, Maria of Spain, was born on the 5th of July 1554.  A member of the House of Habsburg, she seems to have been her father’s favorite child and resembled him not only in...

Tags: Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, catherine de medici, King Charles IX of France, Marie Touchet, Maximilian II Holy Roman Emperor, Queens of France, royalty, the House of Valois
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