Anne of Austria (22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her regency (1643–1651) Cardinal Mazarin served as France's chief minister. She is one of the central figures in Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers.
Born at Benavente Palace in Valladolid, Spain, and baptised Ana María Maurícia, she was the daughter of Habsburg parents, Philip III of Spain an...
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Anne of Austria (22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen Consort of France and Navarre and regent for her son, Louis XIV of France. During her regency (1643–1651) Cardinal Mazarin served as France's chief minister. She is one of the central figures in Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers.
Born at Benavente Palace in Valladolid, Spain, and baptised Ana María Maurícia, she was the daughter of Habsburg parents, Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria. She was styled Infanta of Spain and of Portugal, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Burgundy and of the Low Countries.
Anne was betrothed at age 10 to Louis XIII. On 24 November 1615, they were married by proxy in Burgos while Louis's sister, Elizabeth, and Anne's brother, Philip IV of Spain, were married by proxy in Bordeaux. These marriages followed the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as...
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