Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria (9 March 1561 – 22 September 1578), was a German prince and member of the
House of Habsburg. In 1577, he was appointed the Grand Prior of the
Order of Malta in
Castile.
Born in
Wiener Neustadt, Wenceslaus was the eleventh child and eighth son of his parents' sixteen children. Only nine of the children survived early infancy. He grew up mostly in the court of
Philip II of Spain with several of his siblings. In 1577, Wenceslaus was appointed Grand Prior of the
Order of Malta in
Castile, but died suddenly one year later in
Madrid at age seventeen. He was buried in the Panteon de los Infantes in the
Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
Generations are numbered by male-line descent from the first archdukes. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished in 1919.