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Catherine of Austria, of the Habsburg family, princess of The Kingdom of Spain or Spain ( Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino da España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the... Spain, born a daughter of Philip I (July 22, 1478 — September 25, 1506), sometimes called Philip the Handsome (Felipe el Hermoso) was king of Castile, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and husband of Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain. Born... Philip, Archduke, Lord of Flanders etc and Joanna (Spanish: Juana) (November 6, 1479 - April 11, 1555), called the Mad (la Loca), queen of Castile and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was the second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of Spain, and was born at Toledo on November 6, 1479. Her youngest... Joanna of Castile, as such Archduchess of Austria, Infanta of Castile, Princess of Burgundy and Flanders, sister of King of Aragon and Roman Emperor, etc.


Married King John III of Portugal John III of Portugal, the Pious, (Portuguese João III) (June 6, 1502 – June 11, 1557) was the fifteenth king of Portugal. Born in Lisbon, he was the son of King Manuel I of Portugal by his wife, Maria of Aragon, princess of Spain. Jo... John III of Portugal.


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Joan of Habsburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (198 words)
Joan of Habsburg (in Spanish, Juana), Infanta of Spain, of the Habsburg family, was the daughter of Emperor Charles V who was the first king of united Spain (officially King of Aragon and King of Castile), and his consort Infanta, Isabel of Portugal, daughter of King Manuel I of Portugal.
She married her first cousin, Infante João de Portugal, who was the heir of Portugal, the sole surviving son of her paternal aunt Catherine of Habsburg and her maternal uncle King John III of Portugal.
Their teenage marriage led to pregnancy (Joao was 15 years old when his wife conceived), and their only child Sebastian of Portugal was born posthumously in 1554 a couple of weeks after the teenager father Joao had perished of tuberculosis at the age of 16 years.
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Catherine de Medici tried to promote peace by issuing the "Edict of Toleration" in January '62, which made the practice of Protestantism not a crime, although it restricted preaching to open fields outside the towns and to private estates of Huguenot nobles.
Catherine began a two-year tour of the provinces with her son Charles the Ninth, in an effort to establish unity with the nobility.
Admiral de Coligny, was welcomed into the king's council, Elizabeth of England entertained the prospects of marriage to one of King Charles' younger brothers, and Catherine negotiated with Jeanne d'Albert, Queen of Navarre, to marry her daughter Margot to Henri de Navarre, the ranking Huguenot prince of the blood.
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