Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy
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Archduchess Margaret of Austria was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 to 1530. She was the first of many female regents in the Netherlands.
Portrait of Margaret as a widow painted by Bernard van Orley
Portrait of Margaret aged ten by Jean Hey, c. 1490
Pieter van Coninxloo, Philip the Handsome and Margaret of Austria, c. 1493–1495. Betrothal diptych, National Gallery, London.
Tomb of Philibert II of Savoy inside the Church of Brou (Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France)
Margaret of York
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Margaret of York, also known by marriage as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Burgundian State after his death. She was a daughter of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III. She was born at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, in the Kingdom of England, and she died at Mechelen in the Low Countries.
Portrait by anonymous painter, ca. 1468
Margaret of York before the resurrected Christ, c. 1468, from her copy of Nicolas Finet's Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne
Crown of Margaret of York, Aachen Cathedral Treasury
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Margaret of York's husband, by Rogier van der Weyden