Ludmila of Poděbrady

Ludmilla of Podiebrad ( Czech Ludmila Poděbrady, born October 16, 1456 † January 20, 1503 in Legnica ) was by marriage Duchess of Legnica and Brzeg. After 1488 she had her widow's residence in Ohlau.

Life

Ludmilla came from the Poděbrady branch of the family of the Lords of Kunštát. Her parents were the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad and his second wife Joan of Rosental.

Because of her father's marriage policy operated by Ludmilla was betrothed at the age of four years with the one years older Bavarian Prince George. Due to this scheduled connection to George of Podiebrad wanted to secure the consent of father George Ludwig the Rich of Bavaria -Landshut for a possible choice for Roman German king. After the failure of this marriage plan Ludmilla was a year later promised the Hungarian nobleman Lawrence Úljaki ( Lörinc Újlaki ). Through this connection, George of Podiebrad wanted to win the Hungarian nobility for his former son- Matthias Corvinus. After these connection failed, was again negotiating a marriage with Ludmilla George of Bavaria. Due to political isolation of George of Podiebrad this plan was abandoned in 1468. Then agreed Georg von Podiebrad and the Polish king Casimir IV marriage Ludmilla with his son Vladislav, who later became king of Bohemia and Hungary, however, was not realized.

Only after the death of her father's Ludmilla married on September 7, 1474 the Liegnitzer Duke Frederick I, who was also Governor of Upper Lusatia since 1471. The marriage was with accommodation her older brother Henry the Elder. closed by Münsterberg, which it thus succeeded in producing kinship between the house and the Silesian Piast Podiebrad. The couple had three sons:

After Frederick's death in 1488 Ludmilla exercised to 1499 from the guardianship of the still under-age sons. After the eldest son John died in 1495 and the second-born Friedrich 1499 the age of consent obtained, was the third-born Georg to 1505 under the tutelage of his brother Frederick. As a widow seat Ludmilla was the Ohlauer castle. Duchess Ludmilla died on 20 January 1503. Her body was interred in the Carthusian Legnica, but in 1547 under Frederick III. Was demolished in 1547. The bones of the interred there Liegnitzer Piast were therefore transferred to the former St. John's Church, which now served as a palace church.