Family members and political allies: the portrait collection of Margaret of Austria

158. Apart from a detailed documentation of Maximilian's ancestors and important rulers of the past, additional emphasis is given to his political triumphs.

159. This order, also known as the order of the Griffin and the order of the Baldric, was founded in 1403 by Don Fernando of Castile; see Lightbown (as in n. 81), 261.

160. An even more detailed genealogy, this time in the form of an illuminated manuscript, was commissioned by Emperor Maximilian from Jacob Mennel in 1512 (Furstliche Chronik, genannt Kayser Maximilians Geburtsspiegel, Vienna, Ost. Nat. cod. Vind. 3075). Two of its six volumes stress the links between Maximilian's family and other ruling dynasties; see Maria van Hongarije (as in n. 138), no. 6, 26.

161. See Dodgson (as in n. 82), no. 21, 327.

162. See ibid., no. 11, 325; Maximilian invaded the Franche-Comte late in 1492 and by the peace of Senlis, May 23, recovered the greater part of Margaret's dowry - Artois, Charolais, and the Franche-Comte - for his son Philip.

163. A panel painting in the collection of Henry VIII illustrated exactly the same event in a more elaborate form and suggests that he too saw the propaganda value of this image. The composition of these two scenes is so similar that one must be modeled on the other; see O. Millar, The Queen's Pictures, London, 1977, 20.

164. See n. 150. Margaret's likeness and biography feature prominently in a family tree more than 26 ft. (8 m) long, which was produced for Charles V by Robert Peril in 1535. Here, the new emperor officially acknowledged Margaret's contribution to the administration of his vast realm by giving her a prominent role in his own woodcut genealogy. Her regency is described: "[Elle] fut Regente et Gouvernante des pays de pardeca pour l'Empereur son nepueu / Lesquelz elle gouverna sagement et resista aux ennymys par armes mettant en l'obeissance de la Maieste les pays de Frise / Dutrecht et Doultreyssel"; see Antwerp, Story of a Metropolis: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, exh. cat. (under the direction of Jan van der Stock), Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Ghent, 1993, 222-23.

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