Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria

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Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria
Portrait by Frans Pourbus the Younger.
Sovereign of the Netherlands
Reign 6 May 1598 – 13 July 1621
Predecessor Philip II
Successor Philip IV
Co-monarch Albert
Born 12 August 1566
Palacio de Valsaín, Segovia, Spain
Died 1 December 1633(1633-12-01) (aged 67)
Brussels, Brabant
Spouse Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
Full name
Isabel Clara Eugenia de Austria y Valois
House Habsburgs of Spain ( by birth)
Father Philip II of Spain
Mother Isabel of France
Religion Roman Catholicism

Isabel Clara Eugenia of Austria (2 August 1566 – 1 December 1633) was sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands in the Low Countries and the north of modern France, with her husband with her husband Albert VII, Archduke of Austria. She was an Infanta of Spain and of Portugal by birth. as well as a sister of fthe Duchess of Savoy. Isabel Clara Eugenia later became a nun. Her mother was a daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.


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