Eléonore de Neubourg

Eleonora Magdalena von Pfalz-Neuburg , palatine Countess of Neubourg, Electoral princess of the Rhine, archduchess of Austria, queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1676 - 1705), Empress (1676 - 1705), then Empress dowager (1705 - 1720).

Born the January 6th 1655 with Düsseldorf and died the January 19th 1720 with Vienna with age the 65 years.

Girl of Philippe Guillaume (1615 - 1690), Count Palatine of Neubourg, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, and Elisabeth Amélie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635 - 1709), it was the elder one of a family of 17 brothers and sisters, of which Marie-Anne de Neubourg, queen of Spain, woman of Charles II of Spain (the queen of the " Ruy Blas" V. Hugo and of " Delusions of grandeur " of Gerard Oury) and Marie-Sophie de Palatinat-Neuburg, queen of Portugal marries Pierre II of Portugal. The reputation of extreme fruitfulness of the princesses of the house of Neubourg, that besides it will confirm for its part, made these last the object of very required alliances of the European sovereigns.

With dead (1673) of the infante Marguerite-Therese of Austria, first wife of the emperor Léopold Ier, the choice of replacing remains one moment out of balance between Éléonore and the princess Claude Félicité on the Austria-Tyrol. The prince Lobkowitz, Prime Minister for the Emperor, in favor of Éléonore, endeavors to compromise the candidature of Claude Félicité, but in vain, because the latter is finally selected insofar as it belonged to the Maison of Habsbourg. The new empress is avenged pitilessly for the man who failed to make him lose a crown. Shown inter alia secret trade with the France, the prince is led prisoner to Ratnitz in Bohemia (1674). However, Claude Félicité dies in 1676, and this time, the candidature of Éléonore is approved. Become empress in her turn, it will be able to remember the prince Lobkowitz, while making raise the children of the minister disgraced with the first honors of the Imperial Court.

Very near to her husband who was faithful for him, it looked after it itself during its diseases.

It corresponded, inter alia, with the cardinal Pallavicino of Bologna in Italy via its Benenolla secretary in the Années 1670.

Her husband, Léopold Ier, which passed a good part of its reign to make the war in spite of him, saved the Europe invasion of the Turks by beating the Othoman which had put the seat in front of Vienna, thanks to the assistance of the army of help, directed by his nephew the duke Charles V of Lorraine and the king de Pologne Jean III Sobieski, which crushed besieging them the September 12th 1683 with the Bataille of Kahlenberg. It was the starting point of a " war of libération" which was to conclude in 1699 by the Treaty from Paix from Karlowitz (in Serbe Sremski Karlovci ), which returned to the crown Hungary - Croatia its possessions of Slavonie, Syrmie, Bácska and Banat, that Soliman the Magnificent the had conquered at the 16th century.

Descent

Become in 1676, the third wife of Léopold I {{er}}, Éléonore de Neubourg gives him ten children:

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