Archduchess Margaret of Austria (nun)

Margaret of Austria ( born February 16, 1536 Innsbruck, † March 12 1567 in Hall in Tirol ) was an Archduchess of Austria and one of the founders and nun of the ladies pin in Hall in Tirol.

Life

Margaret was a daughter of the later Emperor Ferdinand I (1503-1564) from his marriage to Anna Jagiello (1503-1547), daughter of King Vladislav II of Bohemia and Hungary. Margaret was a strict Catholic upbringing in relatively simple circumstances.

As part of the Augsburg Reichstag in 1550 negotiated Ferdinand I and his brother Charles V over the succession in the kingdom. The sister of the two, Mary of Hungary, mediated in the negotiations and proposed a marriage of Margarethe with the son of Charles V, afterwards the Spanish King Philip II. This plan, however, was rejected in the successor negotiations.

Together with her sisters Magdalene and Helene Margarethe founded the Haller convent, but died a year after its entry into the pen, even before completion of the Monastery building and the church as a nun and was buried in 1572 in Haller Jesuit Church. When one of her pallbearers Jacob served by Boymont, who was also present five years later at the opening of the coffin and the transfer of the body and remarked on her remains, " is sy [ ... ] lain there, as wan sy schlieff and even Khain ungestalt gewest to ir, the ain Zaichen ires healing time his life has Miessen ". Jakob von Boymont was one of the operators of the canonization efforts to the establishment of the congregation.