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Anne of Austria (French: Anne d'Autriche; Spanish: Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620.
Anne of Austria, Queen of France, wife of Louis XIII (by Peter Paul Rubens, 1625) On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of Philip III of Spain. [22] The couple were second cousins, by mutual descent from Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor. This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political alliances ...
Anne was born at the Chateau of Genappe in Brabant on 3 April 1461, the eldest surviving daughter of King Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy. [2] Her brother, Charles would later succeed their father as Charles VIII of France. Her younger sister Joan became for a brief period, a queen consort of France as the first wife of Louis XII.
Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
Anne of Austria (1601–1666), queen of France Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief) (c. 1650–c. 1725), Native American tribal leader in colonial Virginia Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667–1740), queen of Spain
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun , which gave rise to West Francia , until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
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Queen Anne of Austria was interested in preventing Gaston’s marriage, because she wanted the royal line to consist only of her issue with the king. [2] Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse, a great enemy of the cardinal, and Superintendent of the Queen's household, also took part in the early intrigues of this group. [3]: 120