NOBLEMAN

Elizabeth of Austria

1526 - 1545

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Elizabeth of Austria (Polish: Elżbieta Habsburżanka, Lithuanian: Elžbieta Habsburgaitė; 9 July 1526 – 15 June 1545) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was married to Sigismund II Augustus, who was already crowned as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania even though both of his parents were still alive and well. The marriage was short and unhappy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth of Austria is the 197th most popular nobleman (down from 179th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Austria (down from 191st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Nobleman.

Elizabeth of Austria is most famous for being the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. She was born in 1837 and died in 1898.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Elizabeth of Austria ranks 197 out of 1,415Before her are Daniel of Moscow, Maximilian Sforza, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. After her are Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Queen Letizia of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Bertrada of Laon, Germaine of Foix, and Ramesses X.

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Among people born in 1526, Elizabeth of Austria ranks 4Before her are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Catherine Jagiellon. After her are Rafael Bombelli, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Benedict the Moor, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, and Bâkî. Among people deceased in 1545, Elizabeth of Austria ranks 6Before her are Hans Holbein the Younger, Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal, Hans Baldung, Injong of Joseon, and Albert of Brandenburg. After her are Peter Faber, Sher Shah Suri, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, and Nikola Jurišić.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Elizabeth of Austria ranks 195 out of 1,424Before her are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610), Hans Selye (1907), Hermann Oberth (1894), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Karl Seitz (1869), and Anton Zeilinger (1945). After her are Otto of Freising (1114), Baron Alexander von Bach (1813), Edward Bernays (1891), Anna Maria Mozart (1720), Hans Asperger (1906), and Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771).

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