Leopold I Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor [40779] 24
- Born: 9 Jun 1640, Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Marriage (1): Margaret Teresa Habsburg Infanta of Spain, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire [40787] on 12 Dec 1666
- Marriage (2): Eleanor Magdalene of Neuburg Wittelsburg [40778] on 14 Dec 1676
- Died: 5 May 1705, Vienna, Wien, Austria at age 64
- Buried: Kapuzinergruft, Vienna
 General Notes:
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal02420
Source seem to conflict on who Maria's mother was.
King of Hungary and Bohemia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor
Titles Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Archduke of Austria
Full name Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician
Leopold was physically unprepossessing. Short and sickly, he had inherited the Habsburg lip <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_lip> to a degree unusual even in his inbred family. Historian William Coxe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Coxe> described Leopold in the following manner: "His gait was stately, slow and deliberate; his air pensive, his address awkward, his manner uncouth, his disposition cold and phlegmatic
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded, 1658.
Leopold married Margaret Teresa Habsburg Infanta of Spain, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire [40787] [MRIN: 11633], daughter of Philip IV of Spain Habsburg King of Spain [17029] and Mariana of Austria Habsburg [40786], on 12 Dec 1666. (Margaret Teresa Habsburg Infanta of Spain, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire [40787] was born on 12 Jul 1651 in Madrid, Spain and died on 12 Mar 1672/73 in Vienna, Austria.)
Leopold next married Eleanor Magdalene of Neuburg Wittelsburg [40778] [MRIN: 11628], daughter of Philip William of Neuburg Wittelsbach Elector of the Palatinate [13106] and Elizabeth Amalie von Hesse-Darmstadt [28759], on 14 Dec 1676. (Eleanor Magdalene of Neuburg Wittelsburg [40778] was born on 6 Jan 1654/55 in Düsseldorf, Cleves, Germany and died on 19 Jan 1719/20 in Vienna, Austria.)
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