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  Anne of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France.
Anne began to dress in the French manner, and in 1619 Luynes pressed the King to bed his Queen: some love developed, to the point where it was noted that Louis was distracted during a serious illness of the Queen.
Anne assumed the regency but to general surprise entrusted the government to the prime minister, Jules Cardinal Mazarin, who was a protegé of Richelieu and figured among the council of the Regency.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Margaret of Austria, 1609, by Bartolomé González y Serrano Margaret of Austria (1584-1611), Queen of Spain and Portugal, was the daughter of the Archduke Charles II of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria, and the sister of the Emperor Ferdinand II.
Philippe I, Duc dOrléans (September 21, 1640 –; June 8, 1701) was the son of the Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and younger brother of Louis XIV of France.
Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France.
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Anne of Austria, Queen Dowager and Regent of France (1643 - 1651).
Marie arranged the 1615 marriage of Louis to Anne of Austria, the daughter of King Philip III of Spain.
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII., born.
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 Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666)was Queen of France and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France.
She was born in Valladolid, Spain,as the daughter of Hapsburg parents, Philip III, king of Spain, and Margaret of Austria.
Anne assumed the regency but entrusted thegovernment to the prime minister, Jules Mazarin, who was believed to beher lover.
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 Queen Anne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France
Anne of Brittany, queen of both Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France
Anne of Cleves, fourth queen of Henry VIII of England
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 Anne of Austria: Biography of Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anne of Austria, the eldest daughter of Philip III of Spain, was born in 1601, and married Louis XIII, King of France, in 1615.
She placed unbounded confidence in Cardinal Mazarin, whose rule was so unpopular that a civil war ensured, which compelled the queen and her son to fly from Paris and to solicit the aid of the great Conde.
In 1661 the young king assumed the reins of government, and Anne retired to pass the remainder of her life in religious exercises.
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 History of FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She is known as Anne of Austria (Austria being broadly used for any of the Habsburg dynasties).
Anne is appointed regent and immediately selects as her principal minister a brilliant protégé of Cardinal Richelieu.
Anne and Mazarin are immediately confronted by demands from princes and nobles whose privileges have been reduced by Richelieu during the previous reign and who now want them restored.
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 Chapter 64 Page 1
This, Anne of Austria perceived; knowing herself to be very ill, and condemned by her sufferings to frequent retirement, she was distressed at the idea that the greater part of her future days and evenings would pass away solitary, useless, and in despondency.
Anne of Austria remembered Madame de Chevreuse, in the first place exiled rather by her wish than the king's, and then dying in exile, the wife of a gentleman of obscure birth and position.
The day that Anne of Austria had selected for the lottery was a decisive moment; the king had not been near his mother for a couple of days; Madame, after the great scene of the Dryads and Naiads, was sulking by herself.
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The eldest daughter of King Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria, Anne was married to the 14-year-old Louis XIII in November 1615.
Anne and the queen mother, Marie de Médicis, failed in their attempt to persuade Louis to dismiss the Cardinal (the Day of Dupes, 1630).
Anne and Mazarin were devoted to one another, and some historians have concluded that they were secretly married.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sainte Anne d'Auray
Yves Nicolazic, to whom St. Anne had appeared, and numerous witnesses, testified to the truth of events which had become famous throughout Brittany, and the Bishop gave permission for the building of a chapel.
Anne of Austria and Louis XIII enriched the sanctuary with many gifts, among them a relic of St. Anne brought from Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, and in 1641 the Queen obtained from the Pope the erection of a confraternity, which Pius IX raised to the rank of an archconfraternity in 1872.
The chapel, indeed was plundered, the Carmelites who served it driven out, and the miraculous statue of St. Anne was burned at Vannes in 1793; yet the faithful still flocked to the chapel, which was covered with ex-votos.
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 Austria
Austria, shorn of Hungary, was proclaimed a republic in 1918, and the monarchy was dissolved in 1919.
Anne of Austria - Anne of Austria, 1601–66, queen of France, daughter of King Philip III of Spain.
Margaret of Austria - Margaret of Austria, 1480–1530, Hapsburg princess, regent of the Netherlands; daughter of...
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 The Fronde & English Civil War
His mother Anne of Austria (in fact a Spanish Hapsburg, daughter of Philip III of Spain) became regent.
Anne of Austria grew to trust Mazarin (they may even have married secretly) and placed him in charge of government from 1643.
Anne and Mazarin were forced to concede many of the insurgents' demands in the Declaration of Saint Germain (October 1648).
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 "Anne of Austria" articles on Encyclopedia.com
Anne of Austria Queen of France By Ruth Kleinman.
Anne of Austria ANNE OF AUSTRIA [Anne of Austria] 1601-66, queen of France, daughter of King Philip III of Spain.
An enemy of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister for the regent Anne of Austria, Retz was
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 Mariana of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mariana or Marie-Anne of Austria (Vienna, 23 December 1634 - Madrid, 16 May 1696), daughter of Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III and Infanta Maria Ana of Spain, was the second wife of her maternal uncle Philip IV of Spain.
Mariana was born on 23 December 1634 in Vienna at the court of her paternal grandfather Ferdinand II.
She returned upon John's death in 1679, not technically regent due to Charles' age, but retaining power over the government until her death in Madrid in 1696.
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 Literature.org - The Online Literature Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anne of Austria, who would have been rejoiced to have had a daughter, almost found in this, her favorite son, the attentions, solicitude, and playful manners of a child of twelve years of age.
Anne experienced almost a feeling of pride whenever she saw any one enter her apartment with woe-begone looks, pale cheeks, or red eyes, gathering from appearances that assistance was required either by the weakest or the most rebellious.
Anne of Austria prepared herself to listen, with that love of gossip which the best woman living and the best mother, were she a queen even, always finds in being mixed up with the petty squabbles of a household.
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 Anne of Austria Column @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They would have two sons, Louis (the dauphin) born in 1638 and Philip I, Duke of Orléans born in 1640.
During the years while he was in the ascendency, the duc de Luynes attempted to remedy the formal distance between Louis and his queen.
Vague rumors of betrayal circulated in the court, notably her supposed involvement with the conspiracies of the comte de Chalais that La Chevreuse organized in 1626, then of the king's traitorous lover, Cinq-Mars, who had been introduced by Richelieu.
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 anne of austria -- anne of austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Definition of Anne of Austria Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (September 22, 1601 - January 20, 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Regent for her son, Louis XIV of France.
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, was intrigued with the sweet drink and declared it the drink of the French court.
ANNE OF AUSTRIA This extraordinary woman, daughter of Philip II of Spain and queen of Louis XIII, exercised great influence upon the fortunes of France, at a critical period of its history; thus in...
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 UNT Libraries: Music Library, Biographies
Anne took over as sole regent for her son after his father's death in 1642, despite provisos in Louis XIII's will intended to limit her influence.
In 1615, she arranged the marriage of her son with Anne of Austria, the daughter of the powerful King Philip III of Spain.
The marriage between Louis XIV of France and his cousin, Marie-Thérèse of Austria, was one of the conditions of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659), which ended a twenty-four year war between France and Spain.
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 Who was Queen Anne of Austria?
Anne of Austria,was the daughter of King Philip III of Spain and the mother of Louis XIV of France
Anne of Austria, queen of France, was the daughter of Philip III, king of Spain.
Cardinal Richelieu, the all-powerful minister of the weak Louis XIII, dreading the influence of Anne, succeeded in prejudicing the mind of the king against her.
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 Browse by Title - Norton Simon Museum
Portrait of Anne of Austria, Queen of France, c.
Anne of Austria [1601-1667]was the wife of King Louis XIII of France.
The portraits of Anne and Louis were probably painted during one of Rubens' visits to Paris when he was directing the decoration of the Luxembourg Gallery.
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 Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She was born in Madrid, the daughter of Philip III, king of Spain, and Margaret of Austria, both descendants of the Habsburg family.
After Louis died, Anne assumed the regency for her five-year-old son, King Louis XIV, but entrusted the government to the prime minister, Jules Mazarin.
Queen Anne is the central figure of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers (1844; translated 1846).
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 Marie-Anne of Austria Encyclopedia @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her father, who would become Emperor in 1637, was as yet only the King of Hungary and Bohemia, and was away for most of his wife's pregnancy campaigning in the Thirty Years' War.
In 1668, a voyage led by Jesuit missionary San Vitores named the Mariana Islands in the North Pacific after the queen regent.
Mariana served as his regent for much of his life, except when she was successfully driven from Madrid by John of Austria the Younger, an illegitimate son of Philip IV, in 1678 in a palace revolution, due to widespread court dissatisfaction with her support of favorite Fernando de Valenzuela.
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 Anne of Austria - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Anne of Austria
Queen of France from 1615 and regent 1643–61.
He had learned that the pretended message from Anne of Austria, upon the faith of which he had come to Paris, was a snare; but instead of regaining England, he had, abusing the position in which he had been placed, declared to the queen that he would not depart without seeing her.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Anne of Austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anne assumed the regency but entrusted government to the prime minister Jules Mazarin who was believed to be her
With Mazarin's support Anne overcame the revolt by Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Condé.
The year peace was cemented by the marriage the young King Louis to Anne's niece Spanish Hapsburg princess Marie-Thérèse of Austria.
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 Queen Anne Style - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Queen Anne Style, name applied to three separate styles: an early 18th-century style of decorative arts and architecture, an architectural style of...
Anne (1665-1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1702-1714), the last British sovereign of the house of Stuart.
A bibliography is a list of the sources you used in your research.
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 Sainte Anne Hospital - Paris - psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery - The Hospital - Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
First it was the Marguerite de Provence, wife of Saint-Louis, Health Centre, then the Saint-Marcel Sanatorium known as "The Health" in the 15th century, destined for the housing of the contagiously ill, especially plague victims.
Following this, in around 1650, Anne of Austria was to requested the building of a hospital to which she wished to give the name Sainte-Anne.
This building, which was little used, was transformed into a farm where the mentally disturbed from the close by Bicêtre Hospice came to work.
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 queen anne of austria -- queen anne of austria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Queen (Anne of Austria) and her husband Louis XIII had failed to produce a child in 23 years of marriage.
Queen Anne of Austria, once the beautiful, helpless heroine, is now the ailing, sometimes imperial, matriarch of the royal household, tortured by the son she was forced to forsake.
Anne of Austria Anne of Austria, Queen of Spain C. 1571 KunstHistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Anne originated in Austria, but for this portrait she wears the costume of her adopted country.
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 anne of austria results from Planet Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (1601-1666), queen of France.
Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.
Eleanor died in infancy, Anne became  Empress of Austria, and Marie became a nun.
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