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Margaret of Parma

Margaret (Italian: Margherita di Parma; 5 July 1522 – 18 January 1586) was Duchess of Parma from 1547 to 1586 as the wife of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567[1] and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst.[2] She had briefly been Duchess of Florence from 1536 to 1537 by her first marriage to Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence.

For Margherita, Duchess of Parma (1612–79), see Margherita de' Medici.

Margaret

18 January 1536 – 6 January 1537

10 September 1547 – 18 January 1586

5 July 1522
Oudenaarde, County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire

18 January 1586(1586-01-18) (aged 63)
Ortona, Kingdom of Naples

San Sisto, Piacenza
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(m. 1536; died 1537)​
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(m. 1538)​

Charles Farnese
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma

Habsburg

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Johanna Maria van der Gheynst

Margaret's signature

Charles Farnese (Italian: Carlo Farnese, Spanish: Carlos Farnese, German: Karl Farnese; 27 August 1545 – September 1545), heir to the .

Duchy of Parma

(27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592), 3rd Duke of Parma;[13] married Infanta Maria of Portugal and had issue.[14]

Alexander Farnese

Margaret and her second husband Ottavio had:

Coat of arms[edit]

Margaret of Austria, as Duchess of Florence and Parma, chose for her device a pearl shining from its shell, with the motto, Decus allatura coronae ("About to bring glory to the crown").[15]

Geuzen

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Margaret of Austria (1522–1586)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 703–704.

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