Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany

Elisabeth of Bavaria ( * around 1227 Trausnitz Castle in Landshut, † October 9, 1273 at the Castle Access in Tyrol ) was of the house of Wittelsbach by her first husband Conrad IV Roman- German Queen and Queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, as well as by her second husband Meinhard II Countess of Gorizia and Tyrol.

Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine Otto II (1206-1253) and his wife Agnes of Brunswick (1201-1267), daughter of Welf Henry of Brunswick and his wife Agnes Countess Palatine.

On September 1, 1246 Elizabeth was in Vohburg with Conrad IV married, in personal union Duke of Swabia ( 1235-1254 ), Roman- German king ( 1237-1254 ), King of Sicily ( 1250-1254 ) and king of Jerusalem ( 1228-1254) was. By this marriage the Wittelsbach became the most powerful allies of the German Hohenstaufen. Konrad died after almost eight years of marriage in 1254th The couple had only one son, the last legitimate Hohenstaufen Conradin, who was beheaded in Naples in 1268.

Four years after the death of her first husband married Elisabeth Meinhard II, Count of Gorizia and Tyrol and Duke of Carinthia from the family of Meinhardiner. Elizabeth founded in 1272 in memory of her executed son Conradin the Cistercian monastery of Stams in Tirol where the couple was removed from her husband, and finally buried. Elisabeth and the somewhat younger Meinhard, who survived his wife for more than twenty years, had six children together.

The second daughter, who was called as the mother Elisabeth was. Due to her marriage with the later Roman-German King Albrecht I of Habsburg ancestress of all subsequent After the first son Albert had died before the father was Otto Meinhard's successor as Count of Gorizia and Tyrol and Duke of Carinthia. After Otto's death finally was the last surviving son of Elizabeth and Meinhard, Henry, who in the meantime had claimed for itself Bohemia, Duke of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol. He was like his parents buried in Stams.

Progeny

From the first marriage to Conrad IV:

  • Conradin (1252-1268), Duke of Swabia, the last legitimate Hohenstaufen.

From the second marriage to Meinhard II:

  • Albert II († 1292 ), Count of Tyrol;
  • Agnes († May 14, 1293 ), married in 1286, Frederick I of Meissen;
  • Elisabeth (1262-1313), married in 1276 King Albrecht I;
  • Otto III. (around 1265-1310 ), Count of Gorizia and Tyrol, Duke of Carinthia;
  • Henry VI. (around 1270-1335 ), Duke of Carinthia, Count of Tyrol, King of Bohemia and Poland;
  • Ludwig ( † 1305).
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