Category Archives: Spain

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

 

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver Jacob Matham (extensive text verso)
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3659

Maria Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain 1635-1696

Queen of Spain from 1649 until the death of her husband Philip IV in 1665. She was appointed Queen Regent for their three year old son Carlos II and owing to his ill health, remained an influential figure until her own death in 1696.
Date:
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Archduke Ernest of Austria 1553-1595

Son of Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain; brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Educated in the court of Spain. Governor of Austria from 1576. Knight of the Golden Fleece. From 1594-1595 served as Governor of Spanish Netherlands.

Artist/Engraver Hoef
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3665

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 16 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3656

Cardinal Álvaro Cienfuegos 1657-1739

Charles of Austria named Cienfuegos his envoy to Portugal and retained him as an advisor. At the end of the war of 1714, Charles VI, then emperor, called him to Venice and in 1720 succeeded in having him named cardinal. In 1722 he was consecrated bishop of Catania and in 1724 archbishop of Monreal. Cienfuegos had to renounce his archbishopric when the Bourbons occupied the kingdom of the two Sicilies. He was then given the see of Fünfkirchen by the emperor (1735), although he continued to live in Rome as the emperor’s legate and held important posts in Roman congregations until his death.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain 1602-1644

Elisabeth of France or Isabella of Bourbon was Queen of Spain from 1621 to her death and Queen of Portugal from 1621 to 1640, as the first spouse of King Philip IV & III. She served as regent of Spain during the Catalan Revolt in 1640–42 and 1643–44
Size 8.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

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Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria 1609–1641

Spanish and Portuguese prince, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo, and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 10.5 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00

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Eleonora Gonzaga 1630–1686

Eleonora Gonzaga  was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand III.
Size 12.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:897