Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (1582–1620)

Eleanor of Austria ( born September 25, 1582 Graz, † January 28, 1620 in Hall in Tirol) from the House of Habsburg was an Archduchess of Austria.

Life

Eleanor was a daughter of Archduke Charles II of Austria - Styria (1540-1590) from his marriage to Maria Anna (1551-1608), daughter of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V.

When Eleanor and her sisters the famous Habsburg lower lip to have come again clearly revealed. Eleonore was considered intelligent, capricious and very feeble health, which was due to smallpox in childhood.

Together with her ​​sisters, Gregoria and Margaret Eleanor was later to become the bride of the Spanish King Philip III. in conversation; corresponding portraits of the princesses were sent to Madrid, but Eleanor was not shortlisted. Other marriages projects with various Italian princes were dashed.

Together with her sister Maria Christina, who had returned to unhappily married to the Viennese court, Eleanor in 1607 appeared as a nun in the noble ladies pin into a Hall. Furthermore, sickly, Eleanor spent blinded her final years. She was buried in the Jesuit church Haller.