Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

✶January 19, 1480

†December 11, 1530

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About their life

Margaret of Austria was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands. She was variously the Princess of Asturias, Duchess of Savoy, and was born an Archduchess of Austria.

Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)

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