Biography of Mariana of Austria Queen Consort Spain 1634-1696

On 6th November 1661 [her son] King Charles "Bewitched" II of Spain was born to [her uncle] Philip IV King Spain and Mariana of Austria Queen Consort Spain.

The very high coefficient of inbreeding of 25.39% [25.89% if you go back more generations] a consequence of successive uncle-niece, or in one case, aunt-nephew, marriages.

The fifty-three common ancestors of his parents, and their contribution to his coefficient of inbreeding is as follows:

[her grandmother] Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain: 6.25

[her grandfather] Philip III King Spain: 6.25

Charles Habsburg Spain II Archduke Austria: 1.5625

Maria Anna Wittelsbach: 1.5625

Albert V Wittelsbach V Duke Bavaria: 0.3906

Anna Habsburg Spain Duchess Bavaria: 0.3906

Charles V Holy Roman Emperor: 0.3906

Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain: 0.3906

Anne Jagiellon: 1.9531

Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor: 1.9531

Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile: 1.0498

Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile: 1.0498

Ferdinand II King Aragon: 0.3479

Isabella Queen Castile: 0.3479

Albert Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria: 0.0061

Anna Brunswick Grubenhagen Duchess Bavaria: 0.0061

Eleanor Aviz Holy Roman Empress: 0.1007

Frederick "Peaceful or Fat" Habsburg III Holy Roman Emperor: 0.1007

John II King Aragon: 0.1068

Agnes Valois Duchess Bourbon: 0.0053

Charles Bourbon I Duke Bourbon: 0.0053

Cymburgis Masovia Duchess Austria: 0.0307

Edward "The Philosopher" I King Portugal: 0.0618

Eleanor Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal: 0.0618

Ernest "The Iron" Habsburg I Duke Austria: 0.0307

Isabella of Braganza: 0.0572

Prince John Aviz Constable Portugal: 0.0572

Albert Habsburg IV Duke Austria: 0.0038

Eleanor of Alberquerque Queen Consort Aragon: 0.1093

Ferdinand I King Aragon: 0.1093

Frederick II Duke Saxony: 0.0008

Joanna Sophia Wittelsbach Duchess Austria: 0.0038

John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy: 0.0174

John Bourbon I Duke Bourbon: 0.0027

King John I of Portugal: 0.2137

Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy: 0.0174

Margaret of Austria: 0.0008

Marie Valois I Duchess Auverge: 0.0027

Philippa of Lancaster Queen Consort Portugal: 0.1322

Albert Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria: 0.0119

Algirdas Grand Duke of Lithuania: 0.017

Archambaud Grailly Count Foix: 0.0061

Beatrice Regina della Scala: 0.0062

Bernabò Visconti: 0.0062

Charles Metz II Duke Lorraine: 0.0002

Eleanor Barcelona Queen Consort Castile: 0.0575

Isabelle Countess Foix: 0.0061

John I King Castile: 0.0575

John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster: 0.0544

Margaret Dampierre Duchess Burgundy: 0.0032

Margaret Silesia: 0.0119

Philip "Bold" Valois II Duke Burgundy: 0.0032

Uliana of Tver: 0.017 He married (1) November 1679 Marie Louise Bourbon Queen Consort Spain, daughter of Philip Bourbon I Duke Orléans and Princess Henrietta Stewart Duchess Orléans (2) August 1689 Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 27th September 1667. To the office again, my head running on this pretty girl, and there till noon, when Creed and Sheres come and dined with me; and we had a great deal of pretty discourse of the ceremoniousness of the Spaniards, whose ceremonies are so many and so known, that, Sheres tells me, upon all occasions of joy or sorrow in a Grandee's family, my Lord Embassador is fain to send one with an 'en hora buena', if it be upon a marriage, or birth of a child, or a 'pesa me', if it be upon the death of a child, or so. And these ceremonies are so set, and the words of the compliment, that he hath been sent from my Lord, when he hath done no more than send in word to the Grandee that one was there from the Embassador; and he knowing what was his errand, that hath been enough, and he never spoken with him: nay, several Grandees having been to marry a daughter, have wrote letters to my Lord to give him notice, and out of the greatness of his wisdom to desire his advice, though people he never saw; and then my Lord he answers by commending the greatness of his discretion in making so good an alliance, &c., and so ends. He says that it is so far from dishonour to a man to give private revenge for an affront, that the contrary is a disgrace; they holding that he that receives an affront is not fit to appear in the sight of the world till he hath revenged himself; and therefore, that a gentleman there that receives an affront oftentimes never appears again in the world till he hath, by some private way or other, revenged himself: and that, on this account, several have followed their enemies privately to the Indys, thence to Italy, thence to France and back again, watching for an opportunity to be revenged. He says my Lord was fain to keep a letter from the Duke of York to the Queen of Spain a great while in his hands, before he could think fit to deliver it, till he had learnt whether the Queen would receive it, it being directed to his cozen. He says that many ladies in Spain, after they are found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds or chambers till they are brought to bed: so ceremonious they are in that point also. He tells me of their wooing by serenades at the window, and that their friends do always make the match; but yet that they have opportunities to meet at masse at church, and there they make love: that the Court there hath no dancing, nor visits at night to see the King or Queen, but is always just like a cloyster, nobody stirring in it: that my Lord Sandwich wears a beard now, turned up in the Spanish manner. But that which pleases me most indeed is, that the peace which he hath made with Spain is now printed here, and is acknowledged by all the merchants to be the best peace that ever England had with them: and it appears that the King thinks it so, for this is printed before the ratification is gone over; whereas that with France and Holland was not in a good while after, till copys come over of it in English out of Holland and France, that it was a reproach not to have it printed here. This I am mighty glad of; and is the first and only piece of good news, or thing fit to be owned, that this nation hath done several years.