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Élisabeth de Valois (
April 2 1545 –
October 3 1568) was the eldest daughter of
Henry II of France and
Catherine de' Medici.She was born in the
Chateau of Fontainebleu. Her childhood was spent mostly in the company of her future sister-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots, who was being raised at the French court. Elisabeth was described as being shy, timid and very much in awe of her formidable mother; although there's also evidence which shows Catherine to have been loving and tender toward Elisabeth.
Elisabeth married
Philip II of Spain ("Philip the Catholic"), son of
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and
Isabella of Portugal in
1559 in Guadalajara, Spain. The marriage was a consequence of the
Peace of Cateau Cambrésis (
1559).
His second wife,
Mary I of England had recently died; making Elisabeth of Valois, Philip's third wife.
Elisabeth had originally been betrothed to Philip's son,
Don Carlos, but political complications unexpectedly necessitated her marriage to Philip instead. Despite the significant age difference between them, Philip was very attached to Elisabeth, staying close by her side even when she was ill with
smallpox. Elisabeth's first pregnancy in 1564 ended with a
miscarriage of twin girls. She later gave birth to
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain on
12 August 1566, and then to Isabella's younger sister
Catherine Michelle of Spain October 10, 1567. Elisabeth had another miscarriage on
October 3, 1568, and died the same day, along with her newborn infant son.
The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia became the major vehicle of her father's unsuccessful claims to the thrones of the
Kingdom of England and
France. Philip married her to her Habsburg cousin,
Archduke Albert (1559-1621), who was made regent of the
Spanish Netherlands in
1598. Their joint reign coincided with a golden age for the Habsburg Netherlands.
Isabella bore Albert three children, Archdukes Philip (born 21 October 1605) and Albert (born 27 January 1607) and Archduchess Anna Mauritia; however, all three died in infancy.
After Albrecht died, the archduchess ruled as a governor in the name of her nephew, the king of Spain, for the last twelve years of her life.
Catarina Micaela, Élisabeth's younger daughter, was married to
Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy, and was the mother of
Vittorio Amedeo.
Sofonisba Anguissola, the first Italian woman artist to win international recognition, served as Élisabeth's lady-in-waiting from
1559 to
1569, and painted Élisabeth's portrait.
Friedrich Schiller's romantic tragedy linking
Don Carlos of Spain with Élisabeth of Valois in a doomed romance (without historical basis) furnished the subject of
Giuseppe Verdi's
Don Carlos.
They were the subjects of an exhibition in Brussels in 1998-1999
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