# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-of-hungary
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:03:22.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-of-hungary"
name: "Mary of Hungary"
slug: "mary-of-hungary"
description: "She governed the Habsburg Netherlands for a quarter-century not because she wanted to, but because her brother the Emperor needed someone he could trust. Mary of Hungary asked to resign repeatedly and never enjoyed the work, yet she held seventeen provinces together through riots, wars, and the constant pull between France and the Empire."
tagline: "Governor of the Netherlands and queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (1505-1558)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria%2C_K%C3%B6nigin_von_Ungarn_(1505-1558).jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1505-09-15"
deathDate: "1558-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.45755466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Mary%20of%20Hungary"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Avstriyalı Mariya (Macarıstan və Bohemiya kraliçası)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марыя Аўстрыйская"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мария фон Хабсбург"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Hungaria (1505-1558)"
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    title: "Marija Austrijska (1505–1558)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_d'Hongria_(governadora_dels_Pa%C3%AFsos_Baixos)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μαρία της Ουγγαρίας, κυβερνήτης των Κάτω Χωρών"
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    title: "Maria Hungariakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Itävaltalainen (Unkari)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marie de Hongrie (1505-1558)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մարիա Ավստրիացի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria d'Asburgo (regina di Ungheria 1505)"
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    title: "マリア・フォン・エスターライヒ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "მარია ავსტრიელი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "마리아 폰 외스터라이히 여대공"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maria Austriaca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماري من المجر (حاكمة هولندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى من المجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The daughter of Queen Joanna and King Philip the Handsome of Castile, Mary married King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in 1515. The marriage was happy, short, and childless. When Louis died at the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Mary governed Hungary as regent for her brother Ferdinand I. Four years later, after their aunt Margaret's death in 1530, her eldest brother Charles V asked her to take on the Netherlands and raise their nieces, Dorothea and Christina of Denmark. The job was difficult — riots, a strained relationship with the Emperor, endless diplomacy to keep peace between Charles and the King of France. She succeeded in uniting the provinces and securing them a degree of independence from both France and the Holy Roman Empire. After her final resignation, frail and spent, she moved to Castile and died there in 1558.