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For other women of the same name, see Eleanor Gonzaga
Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian: Eleonora
Gonzaga (23 September 1598 - 27 June 1655), was the second
wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman
Emperor, Archduchess consort of Austria, Queen of Germany,
Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia[1].
Biography
Born in Mantua in 1598,
Eleonora was the youngest daughter of duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga of Mantua and Eleonora
de' Medici.
Eleonora spent her childhood at the court of Mantua. Famous for
her singular beauty, she married Ferdinand in Innsbruck on 2 February 1622. Ferdinand's
previous wife Maria Anna of Bavaria
had died in 1616, but the Gonzaga family did not — as expected —
profit from this connection, because some of Ferdinand's
counsellors rejected the marriage. The Imperial troops even
captured and destroyed Mantua in the War of the Mantuan
Succession (in 1630).
The papal Nuncio Caraffa
described Eleonora not only as beautiful but also as pious. For
example she established Carmelite convents in both Graz and Vienna.
The royal couple had no children, but Eleonora became stepmother to Ferdinand's four surviving
children from his previous marriage.
Eleonora died in Vienna in
1655 and was first buried in the Carmelite convent of the Austrian
capital until her body was transported in 1782 into the St. Stephen's Cathedral
of the same city.
Ancestry
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Eleonor Gonzaga (1598–1655) |
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16. Francesco II
Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua |
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8. Federico II, Duke of
Mantua |
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17. Isabella
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4. Guglielmo X Gonzaga,
Duke of Mantua |
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18. William IX, Marquess of Montferrat |
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9. Margaret Palaeologina |
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19. Anne of
Alençon |
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2. Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of
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20. Philip I of Castile |
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10. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman
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21. Joanna
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5. Archduchess Eleanor of
Austria |
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22. Vladislas II of Hungary |
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11. Anna of Bohemia and
Hungary |
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23. Anna of Foix-Candale |
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1. Eleonor Gonzaga |
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24. Giovanni dalle Bande
Nere |
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12. Cosimo I de'
Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany |
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25. Maria
Salviati |
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6. Francesco I
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26. Pedro
Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Villafranca |
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13. Eleanor
of Toledo |
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27. Maria Osorio |
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3. Eleonora de' Medici |
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28. Philip I of Castile (= 20) |
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14. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman
Emperor (= 10) |
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29. Joanna
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7. Archduchess
Joanna of Austria |
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30. Vladislas II of Hungary (=
22) |
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15. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
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31. Anna of Foix-Candale (= 23) |
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References
- Brigitte Hamann: Die Habsburger. 1988, p. 78f.
Portraits of Eleonore
Gonzaga
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| 9th Generation |
none
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| 15th Generation |
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| 16th Generation |
Princess Regina of
Saxe-Meiningen · Princess Margherita
of Savoy-Aosta · Princess Anne Eugénie of
Arenberg · Princess Yolande of
Ligne · Countess Xenia
Czernicheva-Besobrasova · Princess Anna Gabriele of
Wrede · Countess Helena of
Toerring-Jettenbach · Countess Ludmilla of
Gallen · Princess Laetitia of
Arenberg** · Countess Margaret Kálnoky von
Köröspatak** · Maria Espinosa de los
Monteros^^** · Countess Valerie of
Podstatzky-Lichtenstein** · Freiin Eva Antonia von
Hofmann** · Princess Anna Amelie of
Schönburg-Waldenburg** · Countess Hedwig of
Lichem-Löwenburg** · Freiin Edith von
Sternbach** · Princess Margaret of
Hohenberg · Countess Marie Christine of
Hatzfeldt-Dönhoff · Eugenia de
Calonge^^ · Freiin Maria Theresia von
Gudenus
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| 18th Generation |
Estelle de Saint-Romain^^
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*also an infanta of Spain by marriage
**also a princess of Tuscany by marriage
***also a princess of Modena by marriage
^also an archduchess of Austria in her own right
^^did not have a royal or noble title by
birth |
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