Margaret of Parma (born 1522)

Margaret of Parma

Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1559–67 and 1578–82

Margaret was Duchess of Parma from 1547 to 1586 as the wife of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She had…