Juan marcos avila biography of albert

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The Household of Archduke Albert of Austria from His Election as Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands until His Investiture as Sovereign Prince of the Low Countries ( ) (1)

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José Eloy HORTAL MUÑOZ

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid / Instituto Universitario para la Corte en Europa

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Archduke Albert of Austria was one of the most important figures in the Spanish Monarchy of the Habsburgs during the reigns of his uncle, Philip II,

and his nephew Philip III. As yet, however, until this year, there was not a complete modern biography of him and, apart from his period as cosovereign of the Habsburgs Netherlands with Isabella Clara Eugenia, there were very few studies about particular episodes of his life (2). This represented

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Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 91, , p. –

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JOSÉ ELOY HORTAL MUÑOZ

an enormous gap in the bibliography of the reigns of Philip II and Philip III

but, luckily, Luc Duerloo has published in a political biography that allows us to understand much better many points concerning the histories of Portugal, Spanish Netherlands, the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Monarchy itself (3).

The aim of this essay is to make a contribution to this endeavour by studying the members of h

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