Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria
{{Short description|German prince (1561-1578)}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Wenceslaus of Austria
| title =
| image = File:Václav Habsburský.JPG
| caption = Portrait of Archduke Wenceslaus as Grand Prior of the Order of Malta, by Alonso Sanchez Coello, 1577
| full name =
| birth_date = 9 March 1561
| birth_place = Wiener Neustadt
| death_date = {{dda|22 September 1578|9 March 1561|df=y}}
| death_place = Madrid
| burial_place = El Escorial
| house = Habsburg
| father = Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
| mother = Maria of Spain
}}
Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria (9 March 1561 – 22 September 1578), was a German prince and member of the House of Habsburg. In 1577, he was appointed the Grand Prior of the Order of Malta in Castile.
He was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife, Maria of Spain.
Life
Born in Wiener Neustadt, Wenceslaus was the eleventh child and eighth son of his parents' sixteen children. Only nine of the children survived early infancy. He grew up mostly in the court of Philip II of Spain 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 at age seventeen. He was buried in the Panteon de los Infantes in the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
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Ancestry
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|1= 1. Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria
|2= 2. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
|3= 3. Maria of Austria
|4= 4. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor{{NDB|16|471|475|Maximilian II.|Press, Volker|11857938X}}
|5= 5. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
|6= 6. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Maria von Spanien |volume=7 |page=19}}
|7= 7. Isabella of Portugal
|8= 8. Philip I, King of Castile{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Philipp I. der Schöne von Oesterreich |volume=7 |year=1861 |page=112}}
|9= 9. Joanna, Queen of Castile{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Joanna |volume=15}}
|10= 10. Vladislas II, King of Bohemia and Hungary{{cite ADB|54|688|696|Wladislaw II.|Priebatsch, Felix|ADB:Wladislaw II.}}
|11= 11. Anne of Foix-Candale
|12= 12. Philip I, King of Castile{{Britannica|107009|Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor}} (= 8)
|13= 13. Joanna, Queen of Castile (= 9)
|14= 14. Manuel I, King of Portugal{{cite book |last=Stephens |first=Henry Morse |title=The story of Portugal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwMqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA139 |access-date=11 July 2018 |year=1903 |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |pages=125, 139, 279|isbn=9780722224731 }}
|15= 15. Maria of Aragon
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Male-line family tree
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References
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- Richard Reifenscheid: Die Habsburger in Lebensbildern, Piper Verlag (2007).
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Wenceslaus, Archduke of Austria
Wenceslaus, Archduke of Austria
Category:16th-century House of Habsburg
Wenceslaus, Archduke of Austria