Mariana of Austria (21 December 1634 – 16 May 1696) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. She was the daughter of Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, Philip's sister. At the death of her husband in 1665, Mariana became queen regent, and she remained an influential figure during the reign of her son Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg.
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Mariana of Austria (21 December 1634 – 16 May 1696) was Queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. She was the daughter of Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, Philip's sister. At the death of her husband in 1665, Mariana became queen regent, and she remained an influential figure during the reign of her son Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg.
Mariana (or Maria-Anna) was born on 21 December 1634 in Neustadt, during the reign of her paternal grandfather Ferdinand II. Her father, who would become Emperor in 1637, was as yet only the King of Hungary and Bohemia, and was away for most of his wife's pregnancy campaigning in the Thirty Years' War.
Mariana, was the second of six children, three of which died in early childhood. Her oldest brother, Ferdinand IV of Hungary died young. Only Mariana and her younger brother Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor lived to reach old age.
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