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 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)
Mary of Burgundy
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Mary of Burgundy, nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 until her death in 1482.
Flanders, double briquet, struck under Mary of Burgundy in 1478
The contenders for the hand of Mary of Burgundy
Portrait of Mary, Duchess of Burgundy, attributed to Niklas Reiser, around 1500.