1721 Copper Engraving Portrait Charles Margrave Burgau Austria Habsburg EUM1

This is an original 1721 black and white copper engraving of "Carl Ertz Herzog von Österreich, Marg-Graff in Burgau." This is a portrait of Margrave Charles of Burgau, the son of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and Philippine Welser. He was husband to his first cousin, Sybille of Cleves, the youngest daugther of William, Duke of JŸlich-Cleves-Berg and Maria, Archduchess of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece, an exclusive order of chivalry. He is identified as such by the neck order, a livery collar, he is wearing in this portrait. As a child of the morganatic and secret marriage between Ferdinand II and Philippine Wesler, a woman from a European family of great significance and wealth, yet not nobility, Charles of Burgau, along with Philippine's other children, received the name "of Austria" but would only be entitled to inherit the Habsburg's domain if the House of Habsburg became totally extinct in the male line