Margarita of Spain
Infanta of Spain
Detail of the portrait of the infanta and her brother Alonso by Bartolomé González in the Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid
Born(1610-05-25)25 May 1610
Lerma, Crown of Castile
Died11 March 1617(1617-03-11) (aged 6)
Madrid, Crown of Castile
Burial
Panteon de Infantes, El Escorial
FatherPhilip III of Spain
MotherMargaret of Austria

Margarita of Spain (25 May 1610 - 11 March 1617) was an infanta of Spain, who died in childhood.[1]

Life

Margarita was the seventh child of the marriage between Philip III and Margaret of Austria and the fourth of their daughters, after Ana, María and María Ana.[2]

She was born in Lerma, capital of the states of the valido of her father, the Duke of Lerma, while was still in his privileged position.[3] On 10 June 1610, the feast of Corpus Christi, she was baptized in Valladolid Cathedral by the archbishop of Toledo, Bernardo de Sandoval. Her godparents were her older sister, the Infanta Ana Mauricia and the Duke of Lerma himself. In honor of this last godfather, she received Francisca as a middle name.[4][5] She was carried to the baptismal font by her baptismal godfather.[Note 1][6]

At the age of six she could already write and read the catechism. She was fond of pious practices.[7]

She died in the Royal Alcázar of Madrid at the age of 6 years.[1] She was taken with the usual pomp to the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.[8][9] She is buried in the ninth chamber of the Panteón of Infantes, under the following epitaph:[10]

Non moriar sed vivam et narrabo opera Domini (Sal 117, 17)

Notes

  1. ↑ In Spanish royal baptisms, this honour of bringing the newborn to the baptismal font was second in importance only to the one of being godparent.

References

  1. 1 2 Robles do Campo, Carlos (2005). "Los infantes de España en los siglos XVI y XVII" (PDF). Anales de la Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. 9: 383–414. ISSN 1133-1240.
  2. ↑ Conde Mora, Francisco Glicerio. "Margarita de Austria". Diccionario Biográfico Español. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Cabrera de Córdoba, Luis (1857). Relaciones de las cosas sucedidas en la corte de España, desde 1599 hasta 1614 (in Spanish). Madrid: Imprenta de J. Martín Alegria. p. 406.
  4. ↑ Gascón de Torquemada, Gerónimo (1991). Gaçeta y nuevas de la Corte de España desde el año 1600 en adelante (in Spanish). Madrid: Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. p. 31. ISBN 978-84-600-7855-5.
  5. ↑ Flórez, Enrique (1770). MEMORIAS DE LAS REYNAS CATHOLICAS,: STORIA GENEALOGICA DE LA CASA REAL DE CASTILLA, Y DE LEON, TODOS LOS INFANTES: TRAGES DE LAS REYNAS en Estampas: y nuevo aspecto de la Historia de España. TOMO II (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Madrid: En la oficina de la viuda de Marin. p. 929.
  6. ↑ Rodríguez Moya, Inmaculada (2018). "El bautismo regio en la corte hispánica: arte y ritual del siglo XVI al XVII". Archivo español de arte. 91 (364): 349–366. doi:10.3989/aearte.2018.21. hdl:10234/179904. ISSN 0004-0428 – via Dialnet.
  7. ↑ Gonzalez de Avila, Gil; Salazar de Mendoza, Pedro (1771). Historia de la vida y hechos del inclito monarca, amado y santo D. Felipe Tercero. Obra posthuma (etc.) (in Spanish). Vol. 3. Madrid: Joaquín de Ibarra. p. 135.
  8. ↑ Gascón de Torquemada, Gerónimo (1991). Gaçeta y nuevas de la Corte de España desde el año 1600 en adelante (in Spanish). Madrid: Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía. p. 41. ISBN 978-84-600-7855-5.
  9. ↑ Cobo Delgado, Gemma (2013). "Retratos infantiles en el reinado de Felipe III y Margarita de Austria: entre el afecto y la política". Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte (25): 23–42. ISSN 1130-5517 – via Dialnet.
  10. ↑ Rodríguez Díez, José (2014). "Epitafios del Panteón de Infantes del Monasterio del Escorial y sus fuentes bíblicas". El mundo de los difuntos: Culto, cofradías y tradiciones.2. Ediciones Escurialenses. 2: 825–856. ISBN 978-84-15659-24-2 – via Dialnet.
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