Elisabeth of Oettingen

Elisabeth von Oettingen also Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg (* 1360, † July 9, 1406 ) was a princess of the noble family von Oettingen; by marriage they belonged to the Count House Leuchtenberg and was a maid of honor of the Elector Palatine and the German king Ruprecht III.

Life

Elisabeth von Oettingen was the daughter of Count Louis X of Oettingen ( often referred to as Louis XI. Referred ) ( † May 1, 1370 ) and his wife Imagina of Schaubergwerk († 1377 ). To 1376, she married the landgrave Albrecht von Leuchtenberg ( † ca 1398 ).

Little is known about the life of Elizabeth von Oettingen. They acted as maid of honor at the Palatine court. Irmengard von Oettingen, the cousin of her grandfather, Frederick I of Oettingen, Count Palatine Adolf had married the upright and was the grandmother of the Elector Palatine and the German king Ruprecht III. Elisabeth von Oettingen and Elector Ruprecht III or King. were thus connected by kinship. They probably came at the request or recommendation of its very old, living as a Dominican monastery in Worms Liebenau great aunt Irmengard von Oettingen († 1389 or the 1399 ), the grandmother of the Elector, to the Palatine court.

Elisabeth von Oettingen donated to the Collegiate Church of Neustadt an der Haardt (now Neustadt on the Wine Route ), Memoria grave and laying of the ruling house of Wittelsbach, a valuable collection of 52 Holy relics in two silver containers that were lost during the Reformation. As relatives of the Wittelsbach she was buried with them in the choir of this church, where her epitaph received with the arms of Count Oettingen houses and Leuchtenberg. The damaged grave stone was found in 1907 in the church grounds near the northern entrance into the Catholic part and is now placed on the west wall of the south choir chapel. In the Collegiate Church of Neustadt on the Wine Route is an eternal memory of Elisabeth von Oettingen measurement; the contemporaneous entry in the old Seelbuch the relics donation is highlighted on the pin again.

The son of Elisabeth von Oettingen, Landgrave Leopold von Leuchtenberg († 1463 ) was governor of the Electoral Palatinate in Amberg and was ennobled later. Again, this is possibly due to the extensive relationship with the King and his mother's reputation as the maid of honor. In the parish church of Pfreimd in the Upper Palatinate Landgrave received with portrait figure of Leopold magnificent marble epitaph. The official website of the municipality shows the impressive knights in the header.

Elizabeth's brother Frederick IV of Oettingen, was bishop of Eichstätt; he was considered one of the most pious and most active German pastors of his time.

My other brother Louis XI. with the beard ( sometimes referred to as Louis XII. ) was King Sigismund many years as a tutor and close confidant. In this position he acted as the highest official of the empire and also took part in the Council of Constance.