Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria

Archduke of Austria
Wenceslaus of Austria
Archduke of Austria
Portrait of Archduke Wenceslaus as Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1577
Born9 March 1561
Wiener Neustadt
Died22 September 1578(1578-09-22) (aged 17)
Madrid
Burial
El Escorial
HouseHabsburg
FatherMaximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherMaria of Spain

Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria (9 March 1561 – 22 September 1578), was a German prince and member of the House of Habsburg. In 1577, he was appointed the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile.

He was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife, Maria of Spain.

Life

Born in Wiener Neustadt, Wenceslaus was the eleventh child and eighth son of his parents' sixteen children. Only nine of the children survived early infancy. He grew up mostly in the court of Philip II of Spain with several of his siblings. In 1577, Wenceslaus was appointed Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile, but died suddenly one year later in Madrid at age seventeen. He was buried in the Panteon de los Infantes in the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Ancestry

Male-line family tree

Habsburg
[n 1]
 Original line  /  Albertinian line  /  Leopoldian line 

 Max and Philip line  /  Spanish / Iberian line  /  Austrian / HRE line 

Albert
Count of Habsburg
(c. 1188–1239)
Rudolf I
of Germany
(c. 1218–1291)
Albert I
of Germany
(1255–1308)		Hartmann
(1263–1281)		Rudolf II
Duke of Austria
(1270–1290)
Rudolf I
of Bohemia
(1281–1307)		Frederick
the Fair
(c. 1289–1330)		Leopold I
Duke of Austria
(1290–1326)		Albert II
Duke of Austria
(1298–1358)		Henry
the Friendly
(1299–1327)		Otto
Duke of Austria
(1301–1339)		John
Parricida
(c. 1290–1312/13)
Rudolf IV
Duke of Austria
(1339–1365)		Frederick III
Duke of Austria
(1347–1362)		Albert III
Duke of Austria
(1349–1395)		Leopold III
Duke of Austria
(1351–1386)		Frederick II
Duke of Austria
(1327–1344)		Leopold II
Duke of Austria
(1328–1344)
Albert IV
Duke of Austria
(1377–1404)		William
Duke of Austria
(c. 1370–1406)		Leopold IV
Duke of Austria
(1371–1411)		Ernest
Duke of Austria
(1377–1424)		Frederick IV
Duke of Austria
(1382–1439)
Albert II
of Germany
(1397–1439)		Frederick III
HRE
(1415–1493)		Albert VI
Archduke of Austria
(1418–1463)		Sigismund
Archduke of Austria
(1427–1496)
Ladislaus
the Posthumous
(1440–1457)		Maximilian I
HRE
(1459–1519)
Philip I
of Castile
(1478–1506)
Charles V
HRE
(1500–1558)		Ferdinand I
HRE
(1503–1564)
Philip II
of Spain
(1527–1598)		Maximilian II
HRE
(1527–1576)		Ferdinand II
Archduke of Austria
(1529–1595)		Charles II
Archduke of Austria
(1540–1590)
Carlos
Prince of Asturias
(1545–1568)		Philip III
of Spain
(1578–1621)		Rudolf II
HRE
(1552–1612)		Ernest
of Austria
(1553–1595)		Matthias
HRE
(1557–1619)		Maximilian III
Archduke of Austria
(1558–1618)		Albert VII
Archduke of Austria
(1559–1621)		Wenceslaus
Archduke of Austria
(1561–1578)		Andrew
Margrave of Burgau
(1558–1600)		Charles
Margrave of Burgau
(1560–1618)		Ferdinand II
HRE
(1578–1637)		Maximilian Ernest
of Austria
(1583–1616)		Leopold V
Archduke of Austria
(1586–1632)		Charles
of Austria
(1590–1624)
Philip IV
of Spain
(1605–1665)		Charles
of Austria
(1607–1632)		Ferdinand
of Austria
(1609–1641)		John-Charles
of Austria
(1605–1619)		Ferdinand III
HRE
(1608–1657)		Leopold Wilhelm
of Austria
(1614–1662)		Ferdinand Charles
Archduke of Austria
(1628–1662)		Sigismund Francis
Archduke of Austria
(1630–1665)
Balthasar Charles
Prince of Asturias
(1629–1646)		Charles II
of Spain
(1661–1700)		Ferdinand IV
King of the Romans
(1633–1654)		Leopold I
HRE
(1640–1705)		Charles Joseph
of Austria
(1649–1664)
Joseph I
HRE
(1678–1711)		Charles VI
HRE
(1685–1740)
Notes:
  1. ^ "Habsburg family tree". Habsburg family website. 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

References

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