Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria

Catherine of Habsburg ( * October 1295 in Vienna, † January 18, 1323 in Naples) was descended from the House of Habsburg, and was, by marriage in 1316 until her death Duchess of Calabria.

Life

Catherine was the seventh of twelve children of the Roman-German King Albrecht I and his wife Elisabeth of Carinthia, Gorizia and Tyrol. Your father lost her already on 1 May 1308 when she was only 12 years old.

In Turin State Archives is Catherine's first, but not opening into a marriage engagement to Philip I of Piedmont mentioned that in the first half of 1312 - between the death of Philip's first wife Isabelle de Villehardouin († January 23, 1312 ) and its on 7. were made in May 1312 marriage to Catherine de la Tour du Pin - must have taken place. The Habsburgs were approaching the time at the house of Luxembourg; Catherine should consequently to marry Emperor Henry VII, his wife Margaret of Brabant had died in December 1311. The bridal procession had already been set in motion to Italy, as Henry VII died in Buonconvento Siena of malaria on 24 August 1313. Elizabeth of Aragon, who was a close friend of her sister Catherine, now operational which also unrealized marriage with the later Sicilian King Peter ( II ).

Frederick the Fair tried to carry out imperial policy in Italy, by 1316 the Duke Charles of Calabria gave his then 21 - year-old sister to wife Catherine. The marriage remained childless. Just seven years later Catherine died on January 18, 1323 in Naples, and was buried in the local church of San Lorenzo Maggiore. After Charles of Calabria married his second wife Mary of Valois.