For Margherita, Duchess of Parma (1612–79), see Margherita de' Medici.
For the 19th-century princess, titular Queen consort, see Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma.
Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1559–67 and 1578–82
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Margaret
Portrait by Antonio Moro, circa 1562
Duchess consort of Florence
Tenure
18 January 1536 – 6 January 1537
Duchess consort of Parma and Piacenza
Tenure
10 September 1547 – 18 January 1586
Born
5 July 1522 Oudenaarde, County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire
Died
18 January 1586(1586-01-18) (aged 63) Ortona, Kingdom of Naples
Burial
San Sisto, Piacenza
Spouses
Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence
(m. 1536; died 1537)
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma
(m. 1538)
Issue
Charles Farnese Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma
House
Habsburg
Father
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother
Johanna Maria van der Gheynst
Signature
Margaret (Italian: Margherita di Parma; 5 July 1522 – 18 January 1586) was Duchess of Parma from 1547 to 1586 as the wife of Duke Ottavio Farnese and Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567[1] and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst.[2] She had briefly been Duchess of Florence from 1536 to 1537 by her first marriage to Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Margaret of Austria (1522-1586)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 703–704.
^Steen, Charlie R. (2013). Margaret of Parma: A Life. Brill. p. 35.
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