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A woman who married again
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Margarethe of Austria, the twice Duchess of Savoy

A woman who married again

Margarethe of Austria had previously married to the Prince of Asturias and had a stillborn child herself with her first husband John, Prince of Asturias and none by her second husband, Philibert of Savoy, she would choose to marry again to remain in the land of her beloved, Philibert rather than go away from her second husband’s lands.

On 1511, Margarethe of Austria would take the new duke of Savoy as her new husband as her father, Maximilian would plan to establish the future of his own grandson, Charles, the marriage between Margarethe and Charles III of Savoy would produce a daughter named Anne on 1513 and a son named Emmanuel Philbert on 1515, she would give birth to another daughter named Christine on 1519 which would be her last child.

Anne of Savoy would be the bride of Francis I on the peace of the two ladies on 1530 and Maria of Portugal would marry the Dauphin herself while Eleanor of Austria would remarry to the man she wanted to marry herself on 1523, the elector Palatinate, the match between her and the French King never happened as Anne of Savoy, the daughter of Margarethe would be presented as the bride on the ladies’ peace, she would give birth to one child, Frederick of Palatinate b. 1525.

Beatrice of Portugal is married to Ferdinand, duke of Calabria, a marriage which would only produce a surviving son in 1525 named Alfonso who would continue his parents claims to Naples.

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