Anna of Tyrol

Archduchess Anna of Austria - Tyrol ( born October 4, 1585 Tyrol, † December 15, 1618 in Vienna) was the wife of Emperor Matthias and thus Empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1612 to 1618.

Life

She was the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol and his second wife Anna Catherine of Mantua. 1611 she was married to the future Emperor Matthias. Like her sisters and her mother was Anna of exceptional piety. Items that served their personal devotions, one finds today in the clergy Treasury at the Hofburg in Vienna. She died childless just 3 months before her husband. It set in her will that Vienna was a Capuchin monastery and tomb for her and her husband Emperor Matthias is to be built. This tomb is still preserved Capuchin Crypt, in whose founders tomb has been found in a sarcophagus at her husband's side their final resting. Her heart was buried separately and is now in the heart of the Habsburg crypt in the Loreto chapel, Vienna St. Augustine's Church.