!!!Margarita Teresa

b. Madrid (Spain), July 12, 1651, 
d. Vienna, March 12, 1673, infanta of Spain, first wife of Emperor  
Leopold I. Their marriage and her birthday on the 1st of July 
were celebrated with the performance of M. A. Cesti's opera "Il 
pomo d´oro", the most famous theatrical event of that time. She 
suffered from goitre from youth and died during her seventh pregnancy. 
Since M. T., unlike her half-sister Maria Teresa, who had married in 
France, had not been forced to renounce her claims to her Spanish 
inheritance, Leopold I based his claim to Spain on his marriage 
with her ( War of the Spanish Succession).

!Literature
H. Widorn, Die span. Gemahlinnen der Ks. Maximilian II., 
Ferdinand III. und Leopold I., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1959; 
Smidt-Doerrenberg, Margarita Maria. Des Velázquez lieblichstes 
Modell, 1966; B. Hamann, Die Habsburger, %%sup 4/%1993; NDB.



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