České královny - Marie Habsburská - silver
weight: 31,1 g
purity: 999/1000 Ag
quality: proof
limited mintage: 5000 pcs
edge: plain
Objednávkový kód: CRM1246
Marie Habsburg (18. 8. 1505 - 18. 11. 1558) - wife of the Czech and Hungarian King Louis Jagiello. Mary's parents were Hapsburg King Philip I of Castile and his wife Joanna of Castile.
With the offer of marriage to Louis Jagiello, the successor to the Czech and Hungarian throne, came Mary's paternal grandfather, Emperor Maximilian I. Ludwig's father Vladislav II. Jagiello had to join two dynasties understanding and agreed, despite opposition from the Hungarian nobility. Consolidation volume Habsburgs with Jagiellonians also confirmed by another marriage: Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand I took the same old Anna Jagiellonian, older sister of Louis. Both weddings were held in the summer of 1515 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
Vladislav died a year after the famous wedding, so his place sat ten Louis. Due to the low age (he earned the nickname Baby), decide the fate of the kingdom rather influential Hungarian aristocracy. That changed when Louis reached fifteen years and gradually broke free from undue influence of the nobility. The royal couple then in 1522 went to Prague, where Mary was crowned the Czech queen. The fate of a young couple, however, severely affected the Turkish expansion, which the king tried to avert. Numerically superior army of Sultan Suleiman I. overwhelmingly Christian army dispersed and Louis himself died while fleeing in a swamp. Marie had already married for life. From 1531 until 1555 she worked as governor of Brussels, where they managed volume of Dutch provinces.