ANDREW OF AUSTRIA. - Cardinal, morganatic son of Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, b. in Prague in 1558, d. in Rome on 12 Nov. 1600. He was created cardinal at the age of 8 by Gregory XIII and tried to obtain the imperial electorate by aspiring to the great churches of Germany, which he could not accede to because of the defect of his birth. He was sent as legate to Poland, to drive out the Lutheran Truchess. Governor of Tyrol, bishop of Brixen and of Constance, interim governor of the Netherlands, when his cousin Albert left its government to go to Spain to wed Isabella of Habsburg, daughter of Philip II and lady of Flanders. He died piously in Rome, where he had arrived as a pilgrim and incognito to gain the jubilee, at the age of 43, without having received the episcopal character.

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BIBL.: Biographie nationale de Belgique, I, Bruxelles 1866, coll. 273-79; H. Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, IV, 3e ed., Bruxelles 1927; P. Richard, s. v. in DHG, II, col. 1634, pp. 220-48, passim.

Luigi Berra

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Andrew of Austria

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