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Personal data Maximilian von HABSBURG I 

• He was born on March 22, 1458/59 in Wiener Neustadt, Niederösterreich, Austria.
• Title: Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria
• (Ancestry) : House of Habsburg.
• He died on January 12, 1518/19 in Wels, Oberösterreich, Austria, he was 59 years old.
• A child of Frederick von HABSBURG and Eleanor de PORTUGAL

Household of Maximilian von HABSBURG I

(1) He is married to Anne de BRETAGNE.

They got married on December 19, 1490 at Rennes Cathedral, Rennes, Ile-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France, he was 32 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Bianca Maria SFORZA.

They got married in the year 1494, he was 35 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



(3) He is married to Marie de BURGUNDY.

They got married on August 20, 1477 at Ghent, Flanders, Belgium, he was 19 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Philip von HABSBURG  1478-1506 
2. Margaret von OSTERREICH  -1530




Notes about Maximilian von HABSBURG I

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 - 12 January 1519), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky. He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483. He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, but he also lost the Austrian territories in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy.

Through marriage of his son Philip the Handsome to eventual queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian helped to establish the Habsburg dynasty in Spain which allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making Charles V the first de jure King of Spain. Since his father Philip died in 1506, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.

Maximilian was born at Wiener Neustadt on 22 March 1459. His father, Frederick III, named him for an obscure saint whom Frederick believed had once warned him of imminent peril in a dream. In his infancy, he and his parents were besieged in Vienna by Albert of Austria. One source relates that, during the siege's bleakest days, the young prince would wander about the castle garrison, begging the servants and men-at-arms for bits of bread.

At the time, the Dukes of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the French royal family, with their sophisticated nobility and court culture, were the rulers of substantial territories on the eastern and northern boundaries of modern-day France. The reigning duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was the chief political opponent of Maximilian's father Frederick III. Frederick was concerned about Burgundy's expansive tendencies on the western border of his Holy Roman Empire and, to forestall military conflict, he attempted to secure the marriage of Charles's only daughter, Mary of Burgundy, to his son Maximilian. After the Siege of Neuss (1474-75), he was successful. The wedding between Maximilian and Mary took place on the evening of 16 August 1477.

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493. During his first year as an Emperor, much of Austria was under Hungarian rule as they had occupied the territory under the reign of Frederick. In 1490, Maximilian finally reconquered it and entered Vienna.

In 1501, Maximilian fell from his horse, an accident that badly injured his leg and caused him pain for the rest of his life. Some historians have suggested that Maximilian was "morbidly" depressed: From 1514, he travelled everywhere with his coffin. Maximilian died in Wels, Upper Austria, and was succeeded as Emperor by his grandson Charles V, his son Philip the Handsome having died in 1506. For penitential reasons, he gave very specific instructions for the treatment of his body after death. After death he wanted his hair to be cut off and his teeth knocked out. The body should be whipped and covered with lime and ash, wrapped in linen and "publicly displayed to show the perishableness of all earthly glory". Although he is buried in the Castle Chapel at Wiener Neustadt, a cenotaph tomb for Maximilian is located in the Hofkirche, Innsbruck.

Maximilian I was a member of the Order of the Garter, nominated by King Henry VII of England in 1489. His Garter stall plate survives in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Marriages and offspring
Maximilian was married three times, of which only the first marriage produced offspring:

Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482). They were married in Ghent on 18 August 1477, and the marriage was ended by Mary's death in a riding accident in 1482. The marriage produced three children:
Philip the Handsome (1478-1506) who inherited his mother's domains following her death, but predeceased his father. He married Joanna of Castile, becoming King-consort of Castile upon her accession in 1504, and was the father of the Holy Roman Emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I
Margaret of Austria, (1480-1533), who was first engaged at the age of 2 to the French Dauphin (who became Charles VIII of France a year later) to confirm peace between France and Burgundy. She was sent back to her father in 1492 after Charles repudiated their betrothal to marry Anne of Brittany. She was then married to the Crown Prince of Castile and Aragon John, Prince of Asturias, and after his death to Philibert II of Savoy, after which she undertook the guardianship of her deceased brother Philip's children, and governed Burgundy for the heir, Charles.
Francis of Austria, who died shortly after his birth in 1481.

Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) - they were married by proxy in Rennes on 18 December 1490, but the contract was dissolved by the Pope in early 1492, by which time Anne had already been forced by the French King, Charles VIII (the fiancé of Maximilian's daughter Margaret of Austria) to repudiate the contract and marry him instead.

Bianca Maria Sforza (1472-1510) - they were married in 1493, the marriage bringing Maximilian a rich dowry and allowing him to assert his rights as Imperial overlord of Milan. The marriage was unhappy, and they had no children.

By Margareta Von Edelsheim, Maximilian is alleged to have been the father of:
Margareta (1480-1537) wife of Count Ludwig Von Helfenstein-Wiesentheid, was killed by peasants on 16 April 1525 in the Massacre of Weinsberg during the German Peasants' War.
George of Austria (1505-1557), Prince-Bishop of Liège.
Leopoldo de Austria (c. 1515-1557), Bishop of Córdoba, Spain (1541-1557),with illegitimate succession.
Anne Margerite of Austria (1517-1545) . She married François de Melun ( -1547), 2nd count of Epinoy. Lady in waiting to Queen Maria of Hungary
Anne of Austria (1519- ). She married Louis d'Hirlemont
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor


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