HRE Rudolf II Gets Married

Albrecht and Isabella did have 3 children (Philip, Albrecht and Anna Mauritia), but they all died as infants.

However I tend to agree, that if Isabella Clara Eugenia had married earlier, she might have had a few surviving children, but she probably wouldn't have had a large family.

She had her first kid at 38/39 years and maybe some miscarriages in the six years between the wedding and the birth of her first child.
If she had married around 20 years I think she will have some healthy kids... Sure not the same number of kids of her sister Catalina (who was really fertile and stopped at ten children only for her death. Butterfly that and she will have at least another 5/6 kids or pregnancies).
 
She had her first kid at 38/39 years and maybe some miscarriages in the six years between the wedding and the birth of her first child.
If she had married around 20 years I think she will have some healthy kids... Sure not the same number of kids of her sister Catalina (who was really fertile and stopped at ten children only for her death. Butterfly that and she will have at least another 5/6 kids or pregnancies).

I'm not sure why we shouldn't expect a large number of kids, potentially. Catalina died at 30. Isabella was a year older, and didn't even marry until a year after Catalina's death.
 
AFAIK, Savoy was part of the Burgundian Circle, but I could be wrong. As to Lorraine the only real candidates are the daughters of Kristina of Denmark (IDK about if a cadet-line of the Lorraines or Savoys whether it would be regarded as equal or no), who married the duke of Bavaria and the duke of Brunswick-Kahlenberg.

In the later lists I've seen, Savoy is listed in the Upper Rhenish Circle (the Burgundian Circle was only for Habsburg lands), but I've also read narratives about the 17th century stating that Savoy was not a member of any of the circles. It's possible that Savoy was technically a member of the Upper Rhenish Circle, but didn't participate in it.
 
My bad, should've checked instead of just trusting my (flawed) memory.:eek:

As to the Württemberger princess, can anyone narrow it down to beyond a daughter of Christoph of Württemberg (who would have connections to the Habsburgs through Christoph's mom, a daughter of the duke of Bavaria and a Habsburg; and through her Ansbach mother, connections to the Polish Jagiellons).
 
I'm back to my Sibylle of Cleves-candidature. In the 1610s, Rudolf made some noises about wanting to claim the duchies of Julich-Kleve-Berg. He urged the Wettins to claim it (not sure why, since the Wettin claim came from an aunt of the duke or his eldest sister's youngest daughter - after older sisters' marriages to Brandenburg, Bayreuth and Courland). He occupied the fortress of Julich which was later besieged by a Dutch-Palatine-Brandenburger army. So, if Rudolf married Sibylle way back when she can still have kids, in the event of a war breaking out, then the Habsburgs have a better (if flimsy) leg to stand on if they seize the duchies?
 
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