Anne of Bohemia and Hungary

Anne's father Vladislaus died when she was young, leaving her and her brother Louis in the care of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. At seventeen, she was married to Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand and moved to Vienna, where she built a close relationship with both her husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Mary of Hungary. Over the years she gave birth to many children: the next Holy Roman Emperor, two Queens of Poland, several Archdukes of Austria, and a Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Ferdinand granted her unusual political influence, and she presided over imperial diets, earning a reputation for charity and wisdom. On 27 January 1547, she died giving birth to her daughter Joanna. Ferdinand never remarried, and nearly a decade later became Holy Roman Emperor himself.