Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany

Elisabeth of Carinthia, Gorizia and Tyrol (* around 1262 in Munich, † October 28, 1313 in Vienna) was by marriage Duchess of Austria and Styria from 1299 and elected Roman- German queen.

Life

Elizabeth was the second daughter of the Duke Meinhard II of Carinthia, Gorizia and Tyrol, of the race of Meinhardiner and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria, the oldest daughter of Duke Otto II of the house of Wittelsbach.

1276 she married in Vienna Duke Albrecht von Habsburg ( 1255-1308 ), the son of the Roman-German King Rudolf I and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg. Elizabeth was a clever and enterprising woman who possessed certain commercial talents. The construction of the salt production site in the Salzkammergut region goes back to her suggestion. In 1299 she was crowned in Nuremberg Roman-German queen.

On May 1, 1308 Elizabeth's husband at Brugg on the River Aare by his nephew Johann Parricida ( 1290-1313 ) was murdered because John found himself deceived because of the non-fulfillment of demands from the Rheinfelder House Rules by Albrecht. Queen Elizabeth was at the point where Albrecht was killed, the monastery Königsfelden build, where she was also buried later. About St. Blaise their bones came later to the monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant valley in Carinthia, where they were buried in the abbey church.

Progeny

From the marriage of Elizabeth and Albrecht many children were born.

  • Anna (1280-1328) ∞ 1295 Margrave Hermann of Brandenburg
  • ∞ 1310 Duke Henry VI. of Silesia -Breslau
  • Agnes (1281-1364) ∞ 1296 King Andrew III. of Hungary
  • Kaše Rudolf, King of Bohemia (1282-1307) ∞ 1300 Princess Blanche of France, daughter of King Philip III.
  • ∞ 1306 Princess Elisabeth of Poland, Queen Dowager Wenceslaus II of Bohemia
  • Elisabeth (1285-1352) ∞ 1306 Duke Frederick IV of Lorraine
  • Frederick the Fair (1289-1330) ∞ 1314 Princess Isabel of Aragon, daughter of King James II
  • Leopold Glorwürdige (1290-1326) ∞ 1315 Princess Catherine of Savoy
  • Catherine (1295-1323) ∞ 1316 Duke Charles of Calabria from the house of Anjou
  • Albert the Wise or the lame (1298-1358) ∞ 1324 Countess Johanna of Pfirt
  • Henry Friendly (1299-1327) ∞ 1314 Countess Elizabeth of Virneburg
  • Meinhard (1300-1301)
  • Jutta (1300-1329) ∞ 1319 Count Louis VII of Oettingen
  • Otto the Merry (1301-1339) ∞ 1325 Princess Elisabeth of Lower Bavaria
  • ∞ 1335 Princess Anne of Bohemia

Nine other children of the couple died immediately after birth. They remained nameless and were buried in the Epiphany Chapel in Tulln in Lower Austria.

Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria Gertrude of Hohenburg John Parricida St. Blaise Abbey, Black Forest Henry VI the Good Agnes of Austria (1281–1364) Philip III of France Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine Leopold I, Duke of Austria Constantin von Wurzbach Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Neue Deutsche Biographie Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg Margaret of Brabant Integrated Authority File
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