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Maria Anna of Bavaria (Archduchess of Austria)

Maria Anna of Bavaria
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Archduchess consort of Inner Austria
Tenure 26 August 1571 – 10 July 1590
Born 21 March 1551
Munich, Germany
Died 29 April 1608 (aged 57)
Graz, Austria
Spouse Charles II, Archduke of Austria
Issue
House Wittelsbach
Father Albert V, Duke of Bavaria
Mother Anna of Austria
Religion Roman Catholicism

Maria Anna of Bavaria (21 March 1551, Munich – 29 April 1608, Graz) was the daughter of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (1528–1579) and Anna of Austria (1528–1590), and the wife of Archduke Charles II of Austria.

Maria Anna was the fourth of seven siblings, only five of the children lived through to adulthood. Maria Anna's siblings included: William V, Duke of Bavaria, Ernest of Bavaria, Ferdinand of Bavaria and her unmarried sister, Maximiliana Maria of Bavaria (who once was appointed to marry king Sebastian of Portugal).

On 26 August 1571 in Vienna Maria Anna married her maternal uncle, Charles II of Austria (1540–1590). At first the Archduke was a suitor of Elizabeth I of England for almost a decade. However, despite long term negotiations the queen refused to marry Charles.

Within nineteen years of marriage, Charles and Maria Anna had fifteen children:


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