#catherine of austria

[cesareeborgia]

↳ Historical Ladies Name: Katherine/Catherine

[realcatalina]

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor with his wife or his sister?

On RKD's webpage this is labelled as:

Portrait of Ferdinand of Austria (left), portrait of the wife of Ferdinand of Austria (right)

-which would be Anna Jagellonica(Anne of Bohemia and Hungary)

But I wouldn't be so sure it is her. Because the woman is dressed Iberian, has her hair in Iberian style...(Which in theory Anne might have worn as Ferdinand's bride-he was raised in Spain).

But the coat of arms in corner looks suspiciously as of Portugal(not that we should trust it 100%, it can be later addition...)-it certainly is not of house Jagellon nor of Bohemia or Hungary.

So could it be his sister Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal?

I sure hope so because we have so few portraits of her! I know of like 5 portraits of her in total...and in 3 we only suspect it is her...we don't know for sure.

Obviously looking nicer than in portraits much later in her life.

...but you know there are portraits of Charles V which are ugly and pretty too...(despite him not having such nice features.) But perhaps she had some charm as young girl...I'd like to believe that.

I am honestly undecided upon this one...

Because if it is Indeed Catherine, then I don't think she had that raise upon nose as her grandfather(Emperor Maxmilian), she would have pretty nose.

So how do we explain that raise being in her late portraits?

One possibility is that she had minor raise on nose(plenty of us do), which was overexegerated in her later portraits. She might have been prettier in life, at least at youth...

Anyway, the diptych is recorded on RKD's webpage as lastly seen in 1911. ...Meaning before WW1 and WW2. Those are not good odds for its survival...

However, RKD's webapge has larger picture of it, it's with watermark. But if you just want to study the costume or admire the features, you can have the look at that HD picture.

And tell me what you think...Anne or Catherine?

[lonelyqueenofhearts]

Don't mind me, I'm just thinking about how Joanna I of Castile named three daughters after her sisters and wanted to name her firstborn son after her brother.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Domingo Carvalho, 16th century Portuguese painter. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, possibly a portrait of Catherine of Austria, c.1530

Although the crown, sword and serrated wheel identifies this figure as the fourth-century saint, Catherine, it has also been suggested that the sitter is Catherine of Austria (1507-1578), daughter of Philip the Fair and Joan of Castile and Queen of Portugal from 1525.

[venicepearl]

Catherine of Austria (1295, Vienna, Austria – 18 January 1323, Naples) was a daughter of Albert I of Germany and his wife Elisabeth of Tirol. She was a member of the powerful House of Habsburg. She was Duchess of Calabria by her marriage.

[lake-lady]

Extremely niche, historically accurate mix and match tag game: which reviled European queen do you relate to most based on portraits, famous necklaces, hobbies, and favorite foods 🏰

[haticesultanas]

THE SERPENT QUEEN (2022)  costumes from episode 2, To War Rather Than To Bed

[athousandtales]

You find us dull. I do not. (....) You want some advice? Fade into the background. Become dull, uninteresting, and you might just survive, as I did. I'm not like you. No. More's the pity...

[lochiels]

“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”

Happy birthday dearest @edwardslovelyelizabeth! 💖

[perioddramapolls]

Period drama's dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses Round 1- Group A: Catherine of Aragon, The spanish princess (1) (gifset) vs Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Sisi (gifset)

[juanatrastamara]

my top six favourite historical ladies

based on @demolina 's post

[acrossthealternateuniverse]

AU: Henry VII marries Catherine of Aragon.

Read on AO3

[greypetrel]

Watching Poldark with my mother, who is allegedly not into history. We're in 1790s Cornwall.

Elizabeth: "But I just married, whatever should I do in my days?"

Mother: "Those poor women, it must have been so boring, they had nothing to do save bearing children!"

Me: "ACTUALLY-"

*slams Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelley on the table, Anne Radcliffe, Jane Austen, mantua making, Anne Clavering and others and we're talking of just England- Concluding that it was fucking Queen Victoria that ruined it.*

[nesiacha]

Napoleon: enjoys ridiculing Queen Louise of Prussia by defaming her in the press and by his sexist attitude among other things, not to mention his machismo by saying for the umpteenth time that women are not made by politics and for wars . Me seeing this: He is having fun doing this but I am sure that faced with a confrontation with Catherine II if she had still been alive (or with Marie Thérèse of Austria, but no chance that she would have could have lived until this Napoleonic period), he would not have even been able to do the quarter of eighth grade without taking a big humiliating beating and leaving faster than expected. I even think that the withdrawal would have been even more humiliating than Napoleon's failure in Moscow and maybe the opposite would have been trumpeted in his press despite the censorship, there will surely be pamphlets to count his humiliation XD

[duchesssoflennox]

name 3 royals that you think are underrated?

Name 3 royals that you think are overrated?

Im so curious to see your answer😊

Underrated Royals:

Princess Alice of United Kingdom 🥀

Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895-1903)💔

George Mikhailovich count brasov, Son and only Child of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich🥲

Overrated Royals:

Queen Charlotte

Empress Elizabeth of Austria

Catherine the Great 😒

[cookieloveranddaydreamer]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I wish they would finally stop only making movies and series of the tragic life of Sisi (Empress Elizabeth in Bavaria) and look for other interesting royal German/ Austrian or German speaking ladies/ queens like for example Queen Luise of Prussia (and her sister Charlotte, both being from the house of the dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and having very interesting lifes) or Isabelle/ Elisabeth, called "Isabeau de Bavière" (from the House of Wittelsbach-Ingolstadt), wife of the so called mad French King Charles VI, mother of King Charles VII and Queen Catherine of England (first wife of Henry V of England, then married to Owen Tudor and mother of Henry VI).

Or St. Elizabeth of Thuringia/ Hungary who lived a life for the poor after she lost her husband, Ludwig/ Louis IV, the landgrave of Thuringia, in the 6th crusade (1227) and is among the most renowned Catholic saints.

I would also name Catherine the Great of Russia (Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst) but there is a Russian series about her life and the one with Helen Mirren.

Then the famous St. Hildegard of Bingen, a famous and influential woman of the Middle Ages to this day in so many ways. Yes, there was a German movie about her some years ago but I don't think that it is widely known.

Then "Liselotte von der Pfalz" as Germans do call her, the Madame Palatine, wife of Philippe of Orlèans, brother of King Louis XIV aka the "sun king". She wrote a tremendous amont of letters in her life, leaving behind so much information about the court of the "sun king" that historians can only be thankful to her. Yes, there was the series "Versailles" but that wasn't quite an accurate one.

At least Maria Theresia of Austria, mother of Queen Marie Antoinette and King Joseph II got a series some years ago, cause let us face it, that woman was a great one. As a child it always impressed me wildly how many children she and Luise of Prussia got. It seemed insane to me.

With this I want to say: There is more got stuff about great German/ Austrian/ German speaking ladies out there. Wayyyy more.

And it angers me that it does not get depicted.

Only our tragic or as "weak/ bad" considered ladies do get some recognition like Sisi, Marie Antoinette or Tsarina Alice of Hesse. That is sad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabeau_of_Bavaria

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_of_Hungary