Elisabeth of Nuremberg
Elisabeth von Hohenzollern -Nuremberg (* 1358, † July 26, 1411 ) was German Queen and Electress of the Palatinate.
She was born as the daughter of Viscount Frederick V of Nuremberg and his wife Countess Elisabeth of Meissen and Thuringia.
On June 27, 1374, she married in Amberg Ruprecht III. , Elector of the Palatinate, and from 1400 German king. The marriage sprang nine children. Queen Elizabeth died in 1411, just a year after her husband, at the age of 53 years. Both were buried in the Holy Ghost Church, Heidelberg; her grave with a glorious Doppelepitaph is get there.
In the collegiate church at Neustadt on the Wine Route, a memoria of the Wittelsbach dynasty are King Ruprecht and his wife Elisabeth of Hohenzollern- Nuremberg, and her son Elector Ludwig III. painted by the Palatinate with his first wife, Blanche of England contemporary, as life-sized figures of a " Judgement ", the choir ceiling.
Elisabeth von Hohenzollern -Nuremberg was the sister of Frederick I of Brandenburg, the first Brandenburg electors of the House of Hohenzollern and progenitor of the Prussian rulers.
Progeny
- Ruprecht Pipan (1375-1397) ∞ 1392 Countess Elisabeth von Sponheim ( 1365-1417 ), widow of Count Engelbert III. by Mark
- Margaret (1376-1434) ∞ 1393 Duke Charles II the Bold of Lorraine ( 1364-1431 )
- Friedrich (1377-1401)
- Ludwig III. (1378-1436)
- Agnes (1379-1401) ∞ 1400 Duke Adolf of Cleves and Mark ( 1373-1448 )
- Elisabeth (1381-1409) ∞ 1407 Duke Frederick IV of Austria ( 1382-1439 )
- John of the Palatinate (1383-1443)
- Stefan von der Pfalz (1385-1459) ∞ 1410 Countess Anna of Veldenz ( 1390-1439 )
- Otto I of the Palatinate (1390-1461) ∞ 1430 Princess Johanna of Bavaria- Landshut ( 1413-1444 )