Philippine Welser at the court of Emperor Ferdinand at Innsbruck in 1559. Here he finally recognised her secret marriage to his son which had taken place in 1557. Philippine Welser,1527 – 1580. Morganatic wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915

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