Anne of Austria
Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666) · Spain · Died at 64
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Something wrong?She waited twenty-three years and five miscarriages to produce an heir, then spent a decade holding France together as regent while nobles revolted and her minister schemed - all to hand her son Louis XIV an intact throne.
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Anne at the age of six, 1607
Anne of Austria, coronation costume, by Peter Paul Rubens
Louis XIII, Anne, and their son Louis XIV, flanked by Cardinal Richelieu and the Duchesse de Chevreuse
Anne of Austria as a widow, by Charles de Steuben, Versailles. She never lost her love for magnificent jewellery, and she especially loved bracelets, which emphasized her famously beautiful hands.
Token with the obverse bearing the effigy of Anne of Austria and the reverse that of Louis XIV, around 1643-1646.
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Born in Valladolid in 1601 to Spain's King Philip III, Anne was betrothed to Louis XIII of France at eleven and married him three years later. The marriage was cold, strained by her Spanish blood during the Franco-Spanish War and by Cardinal Richelieu's suspicion. After two decades of childlessness, she finally bore Louis in 1638 and Philippe two years after. When her husband died in 1643, she outmaneuvered opponents to claim sole regency for the four-year-old Louis XIV and installed Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister. The Fronde - a major revolt by French nobility - erupted against her rule but was crushed. Her regency ended in 1651 when Louis came of age. She remained close to him, disapproving when he cheated on her niece Maria Theresa, then withdrew from politics in 1661 to the convent Val-de-Grâce, where she died of breast cancer in 1666.
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