All About Royal Families

January 14th. 1507 marks the birth of Catherine of Austria. This took place in Torquemada, Spain. Catherine with her brothers and sisters  (she is the young lady at the right) Family Catherine of Austria was the daughter of Philip I of Castile, also called the handsome, and Joanna of Castile (the mad). Catherine was thus a sister of: Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Portugal and later Queen of France; Holy Roman Emperor Charles V; Isabella, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I; Mary Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (later governor of the Netherlands). Love and Marriage On February 10th. 1525, Catherine married her first cousin, King John of Portugal. They would have 9 children, however only 2 survived childhood. Duty Catherine served as regent for Portugal between 1557 and 1562. She also had one of the earliest and finest Chinese Porcelain collections in Europe. First she collected it as younger sister of Charles V, later as

January 10th. 1864 marks the birth of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia. Family Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia was a son of Grand Duke Nikolaievich the Elder and Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg. He was a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I and thus a member of the Russian imperial family. Love and Marriage On July 26th. 1889 he married Princess Milica of Montenegro. They had 4 children. His elder brother, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich married Princess Anastasia of Montenegro (Milica's sister). The two couples had a huge influence on the imperial court. The women were called the 'Black Perils'. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the couple fled from Russia and they moved to the South of France. Death Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia died at Cap d'Antibes on June 17th. 1931. Source picture: Wikipedia