der Weyden, now in the Museo de Prado, and the Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, now in the National Gallery, London. Most of the collection passed to the Spanish Royal Collection after her death. Queen Mary of Hungary was a great patron of music. She supported both sacred and secular music at her court in the Netherlands, where her maître de chapelle was Benedictus Appenzeller. Several elaborate music manuscripts that she commissioned during her governance are preserved in Spain in the monastery of Montserrat. Appearance and personality According to Koenigsberger, having inherited the Habsburg lip and not very feminine looks, Mary was not considered physically attractive. Her portraits, letters, and comments by her contemporaries do not assign her the easy Burgundian charm possessed by her grandmother, Duchess Mary of Burgundy, and her aunt Margaret. Nevertheless, she proved to be a determined and skilful politician, as well as an enthusiastic patron of literature, music, and hunting. The contemporary historian Pierre de Bourdeille though found her beautiful and charming, despite the slight tendency towards mannishness. People close to her also found her charming. What made her perceived as masculine (and usually attracted criticism as going beyond "acceptable female behavior") was "her authoritarian manner, her overly public life and her 'masculine' activities". Arms Notes References Footnotes Bibliography Federinov, Bertrand et Gilles Docquier (eds), Marie de Hongrie. Politique et culture sous la Renaissance aux Pays-Bas (Mariemont 2009) (Monographies du Musée royal de Mariemont, 17). Fuchs, Martina und Orsolya Réthelyi (eds.), Maria von Ungarn (1505–1558). Eine Renaissancefürstin'' (Münster, Achendorff, 2007) (Geschichte in der Epoche Karls V., 8). Further reading External links 1505 births 1558 deaths Nobility from Brussels 16th-century House of Habsburg Hungarian queens consort Bohemian queens consort Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands 16th-century women rulers Austrian princesses Aragonese infantas Castilian infantas Burials in the Pantheon of Infantes at El Escorial Spanish people of Austrian descent Daughters of kings