Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
| His Eminence Infante Ferdinand | |
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| Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico | |
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Portrait by Gaspar de Crayer (1584–1669)
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| Church | Catholic Church |
| Installed | 29 July 1619 |
| Term ended | 9 November 1641 |
| Predecessor | Ferdinando Gonzaga |
| Successor | Virginio Orsini |
| Other posts | Apostolic Administrator of Toledo Governor of the Spanish Netherlands Governor of the Duchy of Milan |
| Orders | |
| Created cardinal | 29 July 1619 by Paul V |
| Rank | Cardinal-Deacon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 May 1609 San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Kingdom of Spain |
| Died | 9 November 1641 (aged 32) Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands |
| Buried | El Escorial |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Parents | Philip III of Spain Margaret of Austria |
| Governmental posts Archbishop of Toledo In office 1 March 1620 – 9 November 1641 Preceded by Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas Succeeded by Gaspar de Borja y Velasco Viceroy of Catalonia In office 18 May 1632 – January 1633 Preceded by Enrique de Aragón Folc de Cardona y Córdoba Succeeded by Enrique de Aragón Folc de Cardona y Córdoba Governor of the Duchy of Milan In office 22 January 1633 – 23 September 1633 Monarch Philip IV Preceded by Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba Succeeded by Gil de Albornoz y Espinosa Governor of the Spanish Netherlands In office 1 December 1633 – 9 November 1641 Monarch Philip IV Preceded by Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain Succeeded by Francisco de Melo | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Spanish Empire |
| Branch/service | Spanish Army |
| Years of service | 1632–1641 |
| Rank | Captain general |
| Battles/wars | Thirty Years' War Battle of Nördlingen Eighty Years' War Siege of Leuven Capture of Schenkenschans Siege of Limbourg Siege of Venlo Capture of Roermond Battle of Kallo Battle of Geldern Battle of Bruges Siege of Hulst Franco-Spanish War Siege of Le Catelet Siege of La Capelle Crossing of the Somme First siege of Corbie Siege of Saint-Omer Battle of Saint-Nicolas Second siege of Aire Battle of Lille |
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; 16 May 1609 – 9 November 1641) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–1641), and a general during the Thirty Years' War, the Eighty Years' War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Upon his first decisive victory at the Battle of Nördlingen, which led to the Peace of Prague, he proceeded to rescue the desperate situation in the Spanish Netherlands despite facing a great numerical disadvantage against the combined forces of France and the Dutch Republic. As such, the Cardinal-Infante gained a reputation as one of the best European generals of the 17th century.[1] He is commonly considered the last great commander and strategist of Habsburg Spain, whose premature death in a critical moment helped bring about the end of Spanish hegemony in Europe.[2]
Biography
Youth
Born at the El Escorial near Madrid, Spain in 1609, he was the son of the King of Spain and Portugal, Philip III and II and Margaret of Austria, sister of Emperor Ferdinand II.[3] His older siblings were King Philip IV and III and the French queen Anne of Austria.
From a young age, the Cardinal-Infante had always leaned towards a soldier's life. He had never shown vocation in religion, rather, as a child, he was interested in guns, horses, and war.[4] He lacked friends growing up, and felt his interests were thrown aside in favor of political movements conducted by his father, Philip III, and the Duke of Lerma.[4] Ferdinand was given the religious role out of his two brothers as he was the youngest, and according to royal tradition, pertained to ecclesiastical responsibilities.[5] He was elevated to the Primacy of Spain in 1619, becoming Archbishop of Toledo.[6] Shortly afterwards he was created Cardinal. The style Cardinal-Infante was a combination of his dignity as Cardinal and his station as a royal Prince (Infante in Spanish) of Spain.
Events leading to the Battle of Nördlingen
In 1630 the Cardinal Infante's aunt Isabella Clara Eugenia planned to make him her successor as governor of the Spanish Netherlands. To move to the Netherlands in a style befitting a governor, a strong army had to accompany him. Travel by ship from Spain was not an option as it would expose him to risk of battle with the Dutch navy in the then ongoing Eighty Years' War, so in 1633, he went to Genoa, having quit his governorship of Catalonia where he had been trained. He met with an army from Milan for a planned march through the famous Spanish Way across Lombardy, Tyrol, and Swabia, and then following the Rhine to the Netherlands. Ferdinand also planned to secure this supply route with a string of garrisons, and to support the army of King Ferdinand III of Hungary, his brother-in-law the emperor's son and heir, who was leading the Imperial army facing the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War.
Since disease delayed his travels, he sent half of his army ahead under the command of the Duke of Feria. However, this army was severely depleted during fighting with the Swedish army of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Gustaf Horn. The Spanish requested 4000 cavalry from the Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein, but this being denied, the Spanish had to fund the troops on their own. The Cardinal-Infante was able to continue his travels in 1634, collecting in Bavaria the remains of the army of Feria, who had died in January 1634.
Battle of Nördlingen
Meanwhile, Ferdinand of Hungary was able to defeat the Swedish army at Regensburg in July 1634. Ferdinand and his cousin the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand then raced to merge their armies. The Swedish forces of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Gustaf Horn desperately tried to prevent this merger, but were unable to catch up with Ferdinand of Hungary. The Cardinal-Infante crossed the Danube in August 1634. In September both armies were able to merge, and camped south of Nördlingen in Swabia. At that time Nördlingen was protected by a small Swedish garrison. Shortly thereafter, the armies of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Gustaf Horn also reached Nördlingen, preparing the events for the decisive Battle of Nördlingen. Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand and his cousin Ferdinand then prepared for battle, ignoring the advice of the more experienced generals, such as the Imperial general Matthias Gallas. Bernhard and Horn also prepared for battle, but they were by now rivals and in disagreement with each other. They also underestimated the numerically superior enemy forces, due to incorrect reports that did not realize the Spanish Army of the late Duke of Feria had joined the Cardinal-Infante and believed that the enemy forces numbered only 7,000, not 21,000 infantry, compared to 16,000 Swedish infantry. During the battle, almost anything that could go wrong went wrong for the Swedish forces, in large part due to the efforts of the Spanish Infantry, so that the two Ferdinands achieved a great victory. The Swedish army that fled to Heilbronn was only a shadow of its former self.
The Spanish Netherlands
The King of Hungary tried to convince his cousin to stay and to strengthen their hold on Germany, but the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand moved his troops almost immediately after the battle to continue to Brussels. At the end of 1634 he entered Brussels with all the glory befitting a Governor-General. Due to the unpopularity of the clergy in Brussels, he downplayed his religious status and instead emphasized his worldly ranks. Ferdinand was a skilled politician and diplomat, and quickly reformed the government and the military. He especially managed to win the support of the Flemings against France. However, his powers were secretly limited, and the leader of his army was instructed to follow Spanish orders instead of Ferdinand's orders if necessary.
In 1635, the French attacked Namur, planning to merge with the Dutch near Maastricht but were held off by well prepared defenses. At the siege of Leuven, the invading Franco-Dutch forces, suffering badly from supply problems and greatly depleted by disease and desertion, were forced to withdraw when a Spanish relief force arrived. This allowed Spanish forces under Ferdinand to go on the offensive. The Dutch were driven back and the French retreated. Ferdinand subsequently was able to capture Diest, Goch, Gennep, Limbourg, and Schenkenschanz.
"France declared war on me (on me, not on my brother Philip) and I've since then had to fight against their armies and the intrigues of our brother-in-law Louis and his relentless minister Richelieu." – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand[7]
In 1636, Ferdinand disempowered the last Protestant priests in the Spanish Netherlands, and continued his military counter-offensive by capturing Hirson, Le Catelet, and La Capelle, and securing Luxembourg using the usual mixed nationalities typical of the early modern age that included Croatian troops, and reaching as far a stronghold in France as Corbie during the Crossing of the Somme, threatening Paris.
In 1637, with Spanish forces concentrated in the fight with the French, a relatively lightly defended Breda, that had been under Spanish control for twelve years, was recaptured by the Dutch after a 3-month siege by the Prince of Orange. The loss of Breda was a blow to Spanish prestige but was of much less strategic significance than the gains made by Ferdinand during its course in taking the Dutch towns of Venlo and Roermond in the Meuse valley, effectively cutting Maastricht from the Dutch Republic and, thus, preventing further Dutch attacks on the Spanish Netherlands from the east.[8][9] In the southern front Ferdinand lost the towns of La Capelle, Landrecies, and Damvillers to the French, but then he forced them to retreat south of Maubeuge.[10]
In 1638, Ferdinand's army successfully defended Antwerp, Saint-Omer and Geldern from the Dutch and French armies.[11] His defense of Antwerp led to the Battle of Kallo, where Ferdinand achieved a crushing victory over the Dutch army while heavily outnumbered. In a letter to his brother the King of Spain shortly afterwards, Ferdinand described the battle as "the greatest victory which your Majesty's arms have achieved since the war in the Low Countries began".[12]
In 1639, Ferdinand managed again to thwart Franco-Dutch plans. The Dutch navy destroyed an important Spanish fleet in the Battle of the Downs, off the English coast, but it failed to prevent most of the army it was carrying, some 7,000 to 10,500 infantry, from landing at Dunkirk.[13] While Ferdinand frustrated the Prince of Orange's move against Hulst, an Imperial-Spanish army under Count Piccolomini destroyed the main French army in the south at the Battle of Thionville.[13]
In 1640, Dutch attacks on Hulst and Bruges were repelled by the local Spanish garrisons under the Cardinal-Infante.[14] In the south, after a failed attack on the Spanish fortress of Charlemont in Givet, a combined Dutch and French army under Gaspard III de Coligny and Frederick Henry launched a great offensive upon Arras, the capital of the County of Artois. The city finally surrendered on 9 August, marking the first victory of importance for the French in the war after five years of fighting.[15]
Fall from grace
More dangerous than his military enemies, however, were his enemies at the Spanish court. Numerous rumours and lies floated about, and it was claimed that Ferdinand was planning to become an independent ruler of the Spanish Netherlands with the help of the French King, an enemy of Spain. This rumour was enhanced by another rumour that the French court was planning to marry Ferdinand to Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, the (eldest) daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the French king's brother. The former claim was untrue however his sister Anne of Austria did suggest a marriage between Ferdinand and Anne Marie Louise, the greatest heiress in Europe. Making matters worse, the Spanish empire was under intense pressure militarily and financially; the Cardinal-Infante was even given conflicting orders to send troops to Spain to aid against the 1640 Portuguese uprising.
Death and succession
Ferdinand fell ill during battles in 1641 and died on 9 November 1641 in Brussels at age 32.[16] It was thought that death was caused by exhaustion combined with ill health. Reports talk about a stomach ulcer, but rumors also claimed that he was poisoned. Before his death, he had an illegitimate daughter, Marie Anne de la Croix, born in Brussels in 1641 and died a nun in Madrid in 1715. The Cardinal-Infante would leave behind quite a legacy which was unfortunately never exceeded. The Spanish Netherlands would only begin its decline not long after his death. His body was brought to Spain in 1643, and 12,000 requiem Masses were performed in accordance with his last wishes. He was buried in the Panteón de Infantes.
Disputes about his successor as the Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands destroyed the alliance between the Emperor in Vienna and the Spanish in Madrid. The Emperor (by now the Cardinal-Infante's old comrade in arms, Ferdinand III) favored his brother Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, a militarily unfortunate but otherwise capable ruler. Madrid favored John of Austria the Younger, the twelve-year-old illegitimate son of Philip IV and the actress María Calderón. The inauguration of the unpopular bastard was delayed, and the rule of the Spanish Netherlands was taken over by Francisco de Mello, Marquis of Terceira.
Ancestry
- Ancestors of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria
- 16. Philip I of Castile[17] (= 24)
- 8. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor[18] (= 22)
- 17. Joanna I of Castile[17] (= 25)
- 4. Philip II of Spain[19]
- 18. Manuel I of Portugal[20]
- 9. Isabella of Portugal[18] (= 23)
- 19. Maria of Aragon[20]
- 2. Philip III of Spain
- 20. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor[21] (= 12, 30)
- 10. Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor[22]
- 21. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary[21] (= 13, 31)
- 5. Anna of Austria[19] (≠ 15)
- 22. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor[23] (= 8)
- 11. Maria of Austria[22]
- 23. Isabella of Portugal[23] (= 9)
- 1. Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand
- 24. Philip I of Castile[24][17] (= 16)
- 12. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor[25] (= 20, 30)
- 25. Joanna I of Castile[17] (= 17)
- 6. Charles II, Archduke of Inner Austria[26]
- 26. Vladislaus II of Hungary and Bohemia[27]
- 13. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary[25] (= 21, 31)
- 27. Anne of Foix-Candale[27]
- 3. Margaret of Austria
- 28. William IV, Duke of Bavaria[28]
- 14. Albert V, Duke of Bavaria[29]
- 29. Marie of Baden-Sponheim[28]
- 7. Maria Anna of Bavaria[26]
- 30. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor[30] (= 12, 20)
- 15. Anna of Austria[29] (≠ 5)
- 31. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary[30] (= 13, 21)
Male-line family tree
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House of Habsburg[31] - Original line
- Albert
Count of Habsburg
c. 1188–1239 - Rudolf I
of Germany
c. 1218–1291 - Albert I
of Germany
1255–1308 — Hartmann
1263–1281 — Rudolf II
Duke of Austria
1270–1290 - Rudolf I
of Bohemia
1281–1307 — Frederick
the Fair
c. 1289–1330 — Leopold I
Duke of Austria
1290–1326 — Albert II
Duke of Austria
1298–1358 — Henry
the Friendly
1299–1327 — Otto
Duke of Austria
1301–1339 — John
Parricida
c. 1290–1312/1313 - Albertinian line — Leopoldian line
- Rudolf IV
Duke of Austria
1339–1365 — Frederick III
1347–1362 — Albert III
Duke of Austria
1349–1395 — Leopold III
Duke of Austria
1351–1386 — Frederick II
Duke of Austria
1327–1344 — Leopold II
Duke of Austria
1328–1344 - Albert IV
Duke of Austria
1377–1404 — William
Duke of Austria
c. 1370–1406 — Leopold IV
Duke of Austria
1371–1411 — Ernest
Duke of Austria
1377–1424 — Frederick IV
Duke of Austria
1382–1439 - Albert II
of Germany
1397–1439 — Frederick III
HRE
1415–1493 — Albert VI
Archduke of Austria
1418–1463 — Sigismund
Archduke of Austria
1427–1496 - Ladislaus
the Posthumous
1440–1457 — Maximilian I
HRE
1459–1519 - Philip I
of Castile
1478–1506 - Spanish / Iberian line — Austrian / HRE line
- Charles V
HRE
1500–1558 — Ferdinand I
HRE
1503–1564 - Philip II
of Spain
1527–1598 — Maximilian II
HRE
1527–1576 — Ferdinand II
Archduke of Austria
1529–1595 — Charles II
Archduke of Austria
1540–1590 - Carlos
Prince of Asturias
1545–1568 — Philip III
of Spain
1578–1621 — Rudolf II
HRE
1552–1612 — Ernest
of Austria
1553–1595 — Matthias
HRE
1557–1619 — Maximilian III
Archduke of Austria
1558–1618 — Albert VII
Archduke of Austria
1559–1621 — Wenceslaus
Archduke of Austria
1561–1578 — Andrew
Margrave of Burgau
1558–1600 — Charles
Margrave of Burgau
1560–1618 — Ferdinand II
HRE
1578–1637 — Maximilian Ernest
of Austria
1583–1616 — Leopold V
Archduke of Austria
1586–1632 — Charles
of Austria
1590–1624 - Philip IV
of Spain
1605–1665 — Charles
of Austria
1607–1632 — Ferdinand
of Austria
1609–1641 — John-Charles
of Austria
1605–1619 — Ferdinand III
HRE
1608–1657 — Leopold Wilhelm
of Austria
1614–1662 — Ferdinand Charles
Archduke of Austria
1628–1662 — Sigismund Francis
Archduke of Austria
1630–1665 - Balthasar Charles
Prince of Asturias
1629–1646 — Charles II
of Spain
1661–1700 — Ferdinand IV
King of the Romans
1633–1654 — Leopold I
HRE
1640–1705 — Charles Joseph
of Austria
1649–1664 - Joseph I
HRE
1678–1711 — Charles VI
HRE
1685–1740 - Lorraine
- Maria Theresa
HRE
1740–1780 — Francis I
HRE
1745–1765 - Habsburg-Lorraine
- Joseph II
HRE
1765–1790 — Leopold II
HRE
1790–1792 - Francis II
HRE
1792–1806 - Notes:
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- Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy". Genealogy. EU.
- WER war WER - im Dreißigjährigen Krieg Archived 2020-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Enrique Garcia-Herraiz:Un nuevo retrato del Cardenal Infante don Fernando, conmemorando la victoria de Nördlingen