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Sons of queens regnant

  • Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorThe year 1500 marked the arrival of Charles in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city within the Habsburg Netherlands. A poet at the court reported that…
  • Ferdinand I, Holy Roman EmperorFerdinand entered the world on the 10th of March 1503 in Alcalá de Henares, a city in Castile. He was the second son of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of…
  • James VI and IJames Charles Stuart was born on the 19th of June 1566 at Edinburgh Castle. He became King of Scotland at the age of thirteen months after his mother, Mary…
  • Frederick II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 26th of December 1194, a child named Frederick was born in the market square of Jesi. The location itself was unusual for a royal birth and…
  • Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorJoseph II entered the world at two in the morning on Monday, the 13th of March 1741. He was born inside Vienna's Hofburg palace, which served as the…
  • Leopold II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 5th of May 1747, a boy named Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard entered the world in Vienna as the third son of Empress Maria Theresa and…
  • Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-EsteFerdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus entered the world on the 1st of June 1754 inside the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.