Antonia Visconti

Antonia Visconti ( * after 1350 probably in Milan, † March 26, 1405 in Old Castle Stuttgart) was Countess of Württemberg.

Life

Antonia Visconti was a daughter of Bernabo Visconti of Milan, and his wife Beatrice della Scala. Antonia was first King Frederick III. promised by Sicily as wife, but died before the agreed nuptials in 1377. Then hit Bernabo Visconti on July 1, 1380, a marriage agreement with Eberhard III. of Württemberg. Four of the Sisters of Antonia were married to South German nobles - Taddea with Duke Stephan III. of Bavaria, Maddalena with Duke Frederick of Bavaria, Elisabetta, with Duke Ernst of Bavaria and Viridis with Duke Leopold III. of Austria. The dowry was the enormous for that time sum of 70,000 guilders, which brought Antonia with her ​​dowry to Urach. They married on October 27, 1380 in Urach Count Eberhard III. Eberhard III. overrode her Bietigheim and brackish home as jointure. Antonia promoted the spread of music and literature in Stuttgart and Bietigheim. The Fraw of Mailant garden, which was south of the old castle in Stuttgart, was applied on their own initiative.

From this marriage several children were born, of which only the later Count Eberhard IV survived.

Antonia Visconti was buried in the choir of the Collegiate Church in Stuttgart. After her death, Elizabeth married Eberhard of Nuremberg.

To this day reminds the Villa Visconti, which was built in the old town of Bietigheim 2002, to Antonia.