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 * =//__**JOHN OF AUSTRIA**__//=

__ Childhood and youth __
John of Austria (In Spanish traditionally known as Don Juan de Austria) was born the 24th of February of 1547. Born in the city of Regensburg, he was the progeny of a love affair between Emperor Charles V and Barbara Blomberg, a burgher's daughter and singer. Before John turned the age of three, he was taken from his mother and put in the care of an old friend of Charles, Adrien de Bois, who in counsel with his wife Magdalen de Ulloa, placed the child as theirs, under a Belgian court musician, Franz Massy and his Spanish wife, Ana de Medina. Given money for their travel and his keep, they took him to Spain and settled in 1550 at Leganés, her village just outside Madrid, where John learned Spanish and played with village boys, starting basic school with the priest at nearby Getafe. When John turned seven, by order of his father, the Emperor, a courtier took him from his now-widowed foster mother to the castle of Charles' majordomo, Don Luis de Quijada, which was in Villagarcía de Campos (not far from Valladolid). Quijada's wife, Doña Magdalena, took charge of John, teaching him in her house where he was given a solid curriculum of studies including Latin and French. When Charles renounced his Spanish crowns in 1556, he retired from Brussels to the remote monastery of Yuste in Spain. In the summer of 1558, Quijada brought John to Yuste, where Charles saw his son, now a youth of eleven. Charles willed that John would enter the clergy and pursue an ecclesiastical career. Philip, following the directions of Charles V, sent Don John to the Complutense University in the company of Don Carlos and Alessandro Farnese, Prince of Parma and son of Charles V's other acknowledged illegitimate child, Margaret of Austria. This was meant to be a preparation for Don John his ecclesiastical career, though he did not fulfill his father's and brother's hopes of joining the clergy as a military career proved more to his liking.



__ Women and Children __
Don John had a relationship with María of Mendoza, Ana of Toledo, Zenobia Sarotosia and Diana Falangola. He had 2 children: María Ana de Austria (with María de Mendoza), and Juana de Austria (with Diana Falangola).

__ Battle of Lepanto __
Don John found a Turkish fleet at Lepanto, in the Gulf of Corinth. After some debate, the Turks chose to fight, even though they had been at sea all summer and disbanded some of their people. On 7 October 1571, the Turkish fleet emerged into the Gulf of Patras and took battle formation. Around noon the battle commenced. The cannonade of the galleasses disrupted the Turkish formations as they pressed to the attack, and the bigger and more numerous guns of the Christian allies did devastating damage. In the fighting on decks, the allies prevailed. The Turkish remaining, tried to outmaneuver Doria's wing army, drawing it away from the League center. When a gap appeared between Doria and the center, Uluj Ali, their best admiral, made a quick turn about and aimed at the gap, smashing three galleys of the Knights of Malta on Don John's right flank. Don John came around smartly while the Marquis of Santa Cruz hit Uluj Ali hard with his rear guard. Uluj Ali himself and maybe half his army escaped. The victory was near total, with the Turkish fleet destroyed and thousands of veterans lost. During and after the battle of Lepanto Don John was addressed in letters and in person as "Highness" and "Prince".

__ Death __
He finally dies the 1st of October, 1578, of an illness called Typhus.

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