Mary of Spain
	Born: 1528 Father: Charles V/I Mother: Isabella of Portugal Husband: Maximilian II Married: 1548 Age: 20 Children: Anna (1549-1580), Queen of Spain, Ferdinand (1551-52), Rudolf II,               Ernst (1553-1595), Elisabeth (1554-1592), Queen of France,               Maria (1555-56), Matthias I, Maximilian (1558-1618), Albrecht (1559-1621),               Wenzel (1561-1578), Frederick (1562-63), Maria (1565), Karl (1565-66),               Margaret (1567-1633), Eleonora (1568-1580) Died: 1603 Age: 75
				Mary of Spain by Anthonius Mor
		Mary was educated together with her brother Philipp II. She was mainly interested in catholicism, which she practiced in an exalted form, only surpassed in this respect by her sister Joan. In 1548 she married her cousin Maximilian II, who had only reluctantly started out on the wedding journey to Spain, partly because he sympathised with Protestantism. Their marriage was a happy one, and they had 16 children, among them the future Emperors Rudolph II and Matthias, and Anne, wife of King Philip II, mother of the long-hoped-for heir to the throne. Mary had her children educated in a stricly catholic way. She could not alleviate the tension between her husband Maximilian II and her brother Philip II. In 1581, five years after Maximilian's II death, she retreated to Spain, where she died lonely and embittered.