Charles II of Austria-Styrie

Charles II of Austria (Vienna, June 3rd 1540 - Graz July 10th 1590), was Archiduc of Low-Austria and regent of this part of Austria of the house of Habsbourg starting from 1564.

He was the second wire of Ferdinand I {{er}}, Germanic emperor and of Anne Jagellon (1503-1547), itself girl of Vladislas II, king de Bohême and of Hungary and his wife Anne de Foix.

He married, the August 26th 1571, his niece Marie Anne of Bavaria (1551 † 1608), girl of Albert V, duke of Bavaria and Anne of Austria. They had fifteen children together:

Ferdinand (1572 - 1572)
Ferdinand which became Germanic emperor under the title of Ferdinand II
Charles (1579 - 1580)
Maximilien Ernest (1583 - 1616)
Léopold V (1586 - 1632), duke of the Tyrol, bishop of Strasbourg and Passau which married, in 1626, Claudia de Médicis (1604 - 1648)
Charles (1590 - 1624) bishop of Breslau and Brixen, large-Master of the teutonic Order
Anne of Austria (1573 - 1598) which married, in 1592, the king de Pologne Sigismond III Vasa (1566 - 1632)
Marie Christine (1574 - 1621) which married, in 1595, Sigmund Báthori, prince de Transylvanie (1572 - 1613) and divorced in 1599
Catherine Renee (1576 - 1599)
Elisabeth (1577 - 1586)
Gregoria Maximilienne, (1581 - 1597)
Éléonore (1582 - 1620), nun
Marguerite (1584 - 1611) which married, in 1599, the king d' Espagne Philippe III (1578 - 1621)
Constance (1588 - 1631) which married, in 1605, the king de Pologne Sigismond III Vasa (1566 - 1632) widowed of its sister Anne
Marie Madeleine (1589 - 1631) which married, in 1608, the large-duke of Tuscany Cosme II of Médicis (1590 - 1621)

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