Editing House of Habsburg (section)

==== Titular Dukes of Burgundy, Lords of the [[Seventeen Provinces|Netherlands]] ====
[[Charles the Bold]] controlled the widespread lands of the [[Burgundian State]]. Frederick III managed to secure the marriage of Charles's only daughter, [[Mary of Burgundy]], to his son Maximilian. The wedding took place on the evening of 16 August 1477, after the death of Charles.<ref name=heimann_frederick>Heinz-Dieter Heimann: Die Habsburger. Dynastie und Kaiserreiche. {{ISBN|3-406-44754-6}}. pp. 38–45.</ref> Mary and the Habsburgs lost the [[Duchy of Burgundy]] to France, but managed to defend and hold onto the rest what became the 17 provinces of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]]. After Mary's death in 1482, Maximilian acted as regent for his son Philip the Handsome.

*[[Philip the Handsome]] (1482–1506) [[File:Coat of arms of Philipp of Austria 1483-1485.svg|50px]] [[File:Blason at Philippe le Beau.svg|50px]]
*[[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] (1506–1555) [[File:Arms of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as Heir of Philip the Handsome.svg|50px]] [[File:Arms of Philip IV of Burgundy.svg|50px]]
*[[Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy]], regent (1507–1515) and (1519–1530) [[File:Coat of arms of Margaret of Austria (princess of Spain).svg|50px]] [[File:Coat of arms of Margaret of Austria (duchess of Savoy).svg|50px]] [[File:Coat of arms of Margaret of Austria (countess of Burgundy).svg|50px]]
*[[Mary of Hungary (governor of the Netherlands)|Mary of Hungary]], dowager queen of Hungary, sister of Charles V, governor of the Netherlands, 1531–1555 [[File:Coat of Arms of Mary of Austria as Queen of Hungary.svg|50px]] [[File:Coat of Arms of Mary of Austria as Dowager Queen of Hungary.svg|50px]]
*[[Margaret of Parma]], illegitimate daughter of Charles V, Duchess of Parma, and mother of [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]], governor 1559–1567 [[File:Coat of Arms of Margareth of Parma Before her Marriage.svg|50px]]
*Don [[John of Austria]], illegitimate son of Charles V, victor of [[Battle of Lepanto|Lepanto]], governor of the Netherlands, 1576–1578 [[File:Coat of Arms of John of Austria (1545-1578).svg|100px]]
*[[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]], son of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands, 1578–1592 [[File:Armoiries Parme 1586.svg|50px]]

The Netherlands was frequently governed directly by a [[List of Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands|regent or governor-general]], who was a collateral member of the Habsburgs. By the [[Pragmatic Sanction of 1549]] Charles V combined the Netherlands into one administrative unit, to be inherited by his son Philip II. Charles effectively united the Netherlands as one entity. The Habsburgs controlled the 17 Provinces of the Netherlands until the [[Dutch Revolt]] in the second half of the 16th century, when they lost the seven northern Protestant provinces. They held onto the southern Catholic part (roughly modern [[Belgium]] and [[Luxembourg]]) as the [[Spanish Netherlands|Spanish]] and [[Austrian Netherlands]] until they were conquered by the [[French Revolutionary Army]] in 1795. The one exception to this was the period of (1601–1621), when shortly before [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] died on 13 September 1598, he renounced his rights to the Netherlands in favor of his daughter [[Isabella Clara Eugenia|Isabella]] and her fiancé, Archduke [[Albert VII, Archduke of Austria|Albert of Austria]], a younger son of Emperor [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian II]]. The territories reverted to Spain on the death of Albert in 1621, as the couple had no surviving offspring, and Isabella acted as regent-governor until her death in 1633:

*the [[Archduke]]s Albert and Isabella, 1601–1621 [[File:Coat of Arms of Archduke Albert of Austria as Governor-Monarch of the Low Countries.svg|75px]] [[File:Coat of Arms of Infanta Isabella of Spain as Governor Monarch of the Low Countries.svg|50px]]