Archduke Albert
Albert and his wife Isabella
(
15 November 1559 -
13 July 1621) was appointed for the
Spanish monarchy as Governor of the
Low Countries in
1595, and from
1598 became joint sovereign of the
Seventeen Provinces with his wife, the
Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of
Philip II of Spain, whom he married on
18 April 1599.
Albrecht VII was the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife, the Infanta Maria of Spain, daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Rubens was appointed their court painter in 1609.
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