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Eleanor of Habsburg, also called
Leonor of Castile or
Eleanor of Austria (
November 15 1498 –
February 25 1558) was born Archduchess of
Austria and
Infanta of Castile, became subsequently in turn queen consort of
Portugal (
1518–
1521) and of
France, also duchess of
Touraine (
1547–1558) as
dower. Named Leonor de Austria in Spanish, Leonor in Portuguese and "royne Éléonore" or Aliénor in French.
Born in
Louvain as the eldest child of
Philip the Handsome, archduke of
Austria and
Duke of Burgundy and of
Joanna of Castile,
Infanta of Castile and
Aragon and later queen of the named countries. Her siblings were:
Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire,
Ferdinand I, also emperor of the Holy Roman Empire,
Elisabeth queen of Denmark,
Mary queen of
Hungary and later regent of the Low Countries and
Catherine, queen of
Portugal.
When she was young, her relatives tried to marry her to the king of
England (
Henry VII or
Henry VIII), the
French king (
Louis XII or
Francois I) or with the
Polish king (
Sigismund I), but they could not. Finally they married her to
Manuel I of Portugal, after the proposed marriage with her cousin the Crown Prince didn't occur. They married
July 16 1518. They had two children, the Infante Carlos (who died as a child, born
February 18 1520) and the
Infanta Maria (born
June 8 1521, and who was later one of the richest princesses of Europe). She became a widow on
December 13, 1521, when Manuel died of the plague.
Some time later as a widow, by the treaty called "La Paz de las Damas" (
The Ladies' Peace) she was married to
Francis I of France on
July 4 1530. They had no children.
As the French queen she didn't have any political power; however, she was used as a contact between France and the
Holy Roman Empire. She was Charles V's favorite sister. She died in
1558 on the return trip from
Badajoz, where she tried to make peace with her daughter
Maria.
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