Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria

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Portrait of Archduke Wenceslaus as Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1577.

Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria (9 March 1561 – 22 September 1578), was a German prince and member of the House of Habsburg and since 1577 Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile.

He was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor by his wife Maria of Spain.

Life

Born in Wiener Neustadt, Wenceslaus was the eleventh child and eighth son of his parents' sixteen children, from whom nine survived early infancy.[1][2] He grew up mostly in the Spanish court of Philip II with several of his siblings. In 1577 Wenceslaus was appointed Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile, but died suddenly one year later in Madrid, aged seventeen. He was buried in the Panteon de los Infantes in the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Ancestry

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Family of Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Philip I of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Mary of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Ferdinand II of Aragon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Joanna of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Isabella I of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Casimir IV Jagiellon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Vladislas II of Bohemia and Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Elisabeth of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Anna of Foix-Candale
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Catherine of Foix
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (= 16.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Philip I of Castile (= 8.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Mary of Burgundy (= 17.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Ferdinand II of Aragon (= 18.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Joanna of Castile (= 9.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Isabella I of Castile (= 19.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Maria of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Fernando, Duke of Viseu
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Manuel I of Portugal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Beatrice of Portugal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Isabella of Portugal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Ferdinand II of Aragon (= 18.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Maria of Aragon and Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Isabella I of Castile (= 19.)
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

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  2. Genealogy Database by Daniel de Rauglaudre
  • Richard Reifenscheid: Die Habsburger in Lebensbildern, Piper Verlag (2007).