#anton boys

[grundoonmgnx]

Anton Boys, Albert II, Duke of Austria

[jeannepompadour]

Markéta and Klára Hohenems by Anton Boys AKA Anthony Beys, 1577

[littlehistorian]

As a scion of the Leopoldian line of the Habsburgs, Frederick IV (1382-1439) ruled Further Austria and the County of Tyrol from 1406. In 1407 he married Elisabeth of the Palatinate; on her death in 1408 he remarried Anna of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel, with whom he had Margaret (1423-1424), Hedwig (1424-1427), Wolfgang (1426) and Sigismund (1427-1496). Sigismund married twice: the first with Eleanor of Scotland (daughter of James I) and the second with Catherine of Saxony. Neither of his marriages produced any offspring, consequently the Tyrolean line of the Habsburgs died out in 1496.

[littlehistorian]

William the Courteous (1370-1406) was Duke of Austria from 1386 until his death.

As head of the Leopoldian line, he ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Carinthia, Styria and Carniola as well as the County of Tyrol and Further Austria.

At the age of 8, William was betrothed to the Anjou princess Hedwig, the youngest daughter of King Louis I of Hungary, who had also become King of Poland in 1370.

When King Louis died in 1382, the Polish nobles chose Jadwiga as queen regnant. They also repudiated her betrothal to William and enforced the break-up of the engagement.

In 1401, William married another presumptive heiress, Princess Joanna of Durazzo, Hedwig's cousin and also of Angevin descent. The marriage did not produce any offspring and William did not live to see his wife succeed her brother Ladislaus of Naples as Queen Joanna II in 1414.

[grundoonmgnx]

Anton Boys, Henryk Żelazny

[grundoonmgnx]

Anton Boys, Cymburgis of Masovia, c. 1579-1587

[grundoonmgnx]

Anton Boys (Flemish, about 1540-1595), Radegund of France. daughter of Charles VII