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Isabella Clara Eugenia d'Asburgo, infanta di Spagna e di Portogallo (Segovia, 12 agosto 1566 – Bruxelles, 1º dicembre 1633), è stata infanta di Spagna per nascita e arciduchessa d'Austria per matrimonio.
L'imperatore approvò l'accordo di matrimonio in base al quale Anna Isabella avrebbe portato in dote a Ferdinando Carlo anche il Ducato di Guastalla.
- Early Life
- Marriage Proposals
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Patronage of Arts
- In Popular Culture
- Bibliography
Childhood
Isabella Clara Eugenia of Austria was born in the Palace of Valsain, Segovia on 12 August 1566. She was the first surviving daughter of King Philip II of Spain and his third wife, Elisabeth of Valois. Her father was reportedly overjoyed at her birth and declared himself to be happier on the occasion than he would have been at the birth of a son. He already had a male heir, Carlos, Prince of Asturias, but due to the Prince’s mental illness and emotional instability, father and son had never de...
Youth
Isabella and Catherine were raised under the care of Margarita de Cardona, their stepmother's lady-in-waiting, and some of their mother's own ladies-in-waiting, such as Claude de Vineulx. Both sisters were described as intelligent and well aware of their high social status.[citation needed] Isabella had a very good education. Her studies presumably included good manners, mathematics, and the languages Dutch, French and Italian besides her native Spanish. Famous artist Sofonisba Anguissola, wh...
Candidate to the French throne
After her maternal uncle, Henry III of France, was assassinated by the fanatical young monk Jacques Clément on 2 August 1589, Philip II claimed the French crown on Isabella's behalf despite France's Salic law, which forbade cognaticsuccession. At any rate, her mother had ceded any claim to the French crown with her marriage to the Spanish king. However, the Parlement of Paris, in power of the Catholic party, gave verdict that Isabella was "the legitimate sovereign" of France. The Huguenot lea...
As Infanta of Spain and Portugal, Isabella was quite eligible on the political marriage market, though she ended up marrying late for her time.[citation needed]
Beginning in 1601, the Archduke and Archduchess ruled the Spanish Netherlands together. Their reign is a key period in the history of the Spanish Netherlands. After Albert's death, Isabella was appointed Governor of the Netherlands on the King of Spain's behalf. She was succeeded as Governor by Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, the third son o...
Court of Brussels
Isabella and Albert were very supportive of the arts. In their patronage, they selected artists who were able create works that would promote the chief political goals of the Archdukes: to show that their reign was a continuation of the rule of the previous Burgundian and Habsburg rulers as well as to promote the ideals of the revitalized Catholic Church of which they were the staunch defenders. Their favorite artists created new iconography and genres that captured the devoutness and splendo...
Descalzas reales
For a month in 1598 Isabella had lived in the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, alongside her mother-in-law Maria. She continued to take an active interest in the convent, and donated major artworks to it, including a famous series of Brussels tapestries, designed by Rubens. These depict Isabella as the order's patron saint, "Clare of Assisi with Monstrance".
Isabella Clara Eugenia is a minor character in the alternate history 1632 series. She is most notable in the novel 1634: The Bavarian Crisis.In the 2002 alternate history novel Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, where the Armada has been successful, Isabella Clara Eugenia is temporarily made Queen of England.In the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Isabella appeared in a minor role at the side of her father, Philip II of Spain, at the time of the attempted invasion of England by the Spanish Armadain...Cordula Van Wyhe (ed.), Isabel Clara Eugenia: Female Sovereignty in the Courts of Madrid and Brussels(Madrid and London, 2011).Werner Thomas and Luc Duerloo (eds.), Albert & Isabella, 1598–1621: Essays(Turnhout, 1998).Isabella Clara Eugenia d'Asburgo, infanta di Spagna e di Portogallo ( Segovia, 12 agosto 1566 – Bruxelles, 1º dicembre 1633 ), è stata infanta di Spagna per nascita e arciduchessa d'Austria per matrimonio. Governò, come principessa sovrana, i Paesi Bassi spagnoli.
Il Ritratto dell'infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia di Spagna in abito di clarissa è un dipinto a olio su tavola di Peter Paul Rubens, databile al 1625 e conservato nella Galleria Palatina a Firenze. Un'altra versione del dipinto, con sfondo modificato, si trova nel Norton Simon Museum di Pasadena.
Isabella Clara Eugenia, archduchess of Austria was an infanta of Spain who became the instrument of her father’s claims to the thrones of England and France; as the archduchess of Austria, she ruled the Spanish Netherlands with her husband, Archduke Albert VII, from 1598 to 1621.
Infante Isabella Clara Eugenia e Caterina Michela è un dipinto di Sofonisba Anguissola, che è databile 1569-1570, che fa parte della Royal Collection ed è conservato a Buckingham Palace. Le bambine ritratte sono due infante di Spagna, figlie di Filippo II e della regina Elisabetta di Valois.
