Agnes of Austria (1281–1364)

Agnes of Hungary (c. 1281; † June 11, 1364 in Königsfelden in Windisch, Switzerland ) from the House of Habsburg was the daughter and eldest child of the German King Albrecht I and his wife Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol. She was the wife of the Hungarian King Andrew III.

Her marriage to the King of Hungary was held in Vienna on February 13, 1296; King Andrew, however, died five years later and she took over from there to the education of her stepdaughter Elizabeth. 1308 Agnes ' father in Windisch, near the family seat of the Habsburgs, murdered. To commemorate this family tragedy donated Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, the monastery Königsfelden, a double convent of the Poor Clares and Franciscan Friars Minor. The Agnes widow lived there from 1317 each without a vow. At the same time her step- daughter Elizabeth entered the nearby Dominican convent Töss. Thanks to extensive purchases of land and economic destiny led the monastery to flourish. Among other things, she commissioned the construction of the monastery church, which is one of the major works of the mendicant in Switzerland.

From about 1330 it was her brother, Duke Albrecht II, as a consultant to the side, was the Habsburg representative in the Austrian foreland and has participated in numerous conflicts as a mediator. So she reached in 1333 and 1340 a land of peace between the cities of Bern and Fribourg. The mediation between Zurich, Rapperswil and the forest sites in 1351 but failed.

Agnes of Hungary had the country manorial rights over the Habsburg offices Bözberg and Eigenamt and across the city of Brugg. She founded the hospital in Baden.

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