MARIA, ARCHDUCHESS OF AUSTRIA
(1505-1558)
Born: 17 SEP 1505 Brussels, BELGIUM
Died: 18 OCT 1558 Cigales, SPAIN
Married: 13 JAN 1522
Lajos II, King of Hungary+Bohemia
Born: 1 JUL 1506 Prag, BOHEMIA
Died: 29 AUG 1526
Daughter of Philip Le Bel of Burgundy and Juana La Loca of Spain.
At 17, she married Louis/Lajos II (Jagellon), King of Hungary, who
was 15. Four years later, the Turks over-ran half his kingdom, including
the capital, Budapesht. Louis was killed at the battle of Mohacs.
Mary fled west, taking the Hungarian treasury with her (!) Young as she
was, Mary did not want to re-marry. Instead, she asked her brother,
Charles V, for a job and an income. When their aunt, Margaret of
Austria, died, Charles made Mary Regent of the Netherlands in her place.
Mary and Louis had no children.
Source: Sandra White
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