Read part one here. In 1685, Eleonore Magdalene’s stepdaughter Maria Antonia married Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria and Maria Antonia remained in Vienna at first, as Maximilian was away fighting. As a condition of the marriage, Leopold had made Maria Antonia secretly renounce her rights to the Spanish throne in favour of her father’s [read more]
Tragedy struck the house of Habsburg again on 8 April 1676 when Empress Claudia Felicitas died at the age of just 22. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, had been widowed for the second time, and he had just one surviving daughter from his first marriage to Margaret Theresa of Austria. There were not a lot [read more]
Read part one here. The civil war that began with the death of King Andrew III of Hungary and Croatia ended two decades later with the succession of the grandson of Mary of Hungary, the sister of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. He became King Charles I of Hungary. The amount of times he married is [read more]
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