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Isabella of Austria (also known as
Isabella or
Elisabeth of Burgundy,
of Habsburg, or
of Castile) (
18 July 1501–
19 January 1526),
Archduchess of
Austria,
Infanta of
Castile and
Princess of
Burgundy by birth and Queen of
Denmark,
Sweden and
Norway by her marriage to
King Christian II, was the daughter of
Philip I and
Joanna of
Castile and the sister of
Emperor Charles V. She was born at
Brussels.
On 11 July 1514 Isabella was married by proxy to King
Christian II of Denmark with
Emperor Maximilian, her grandfather, standing in for the king. A year later, the Archbishop of Norway was sent to escort her to
Copenhagen. The marriage was ratified on
12 August 1515.
Isabella was crowned Queen of Denmark and given the name Elisabeth, but the relationship between her family and king Christian was quite cool during the first year of the marriage. The King's Dutch mistress,
Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, had been with him since 1507, and he wasn't about to give her up for a teenaged girl.
This angered the Emperor, and caused some diplomatic strife between him and King Christian, but the matter was resolved when Dyveke died in 1517, and Isabella's relationship with her husband improved vastly over the next few years.
She bore him three children, Hans,
Christina and Dorothea, and when king Christian was deposed in 1523 by disloyal noblemen supporting his aging uncle
duke Frederick, the new king wanted to be on good terms with her family. He wrote her a personal letter in her native
German, offering her a dowager queen's pension and permitting her to stay in Denmark under his protection while king Christian fled to the
Netherlands.
But Isabella wrote back to duke Frederick in
Latin, stating that "ubi rex meus, ibi regna mea", that's "where my king is, there's my kingdom". She then left Denmark with her husband and their children. The young queen died at Ghent at just twenty-four years of age.
Note: Isabella's first daughter was the
Christina, Duchess of Milan made famous in
Holbein's portrait, painted when
Henry VIII of England was looking for his fourth wife. Her younger daughter, Dorothea, married
Frederick II, Elector Palatine.
It is said that the daughter of
Denmark's
Crown Prince Frederik and
Crown Princess Mary,
Princess Isabella, was named after her.
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