Gertrude of Hohenburg
Gertrud von Hohenberg (* 1225 in Deilingen, † February 16, 1281 ) was as the wife of Rudolf of Habsburg from 1253 Countess of Habsburg, Kyburg and Lowenstein and from 1273 as Anna von Habsburg Roman- German queen. The Acta Murensia calls ux. Gertrudis, quae et Anna, Ludovici, Comitis Froburgi et Hochbergi Comitis filia, ie, the daughter of Louis of Frohnburg - Hochberg.
Anna von Habsburg is considered ancestress of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria.
Life
Gertrud von Hohenberg was the eldest daughter of Count Burkhard V. von Hohenberg and his wife Mechtild of Tübingen Countess Palatine, daughter of Count Palatine Rudolf II of Tübingen.
Descent
The Swiss historian Aegidius Tschudi († 1572) put forward the theory that Gertrud von Hohenberg, the wife of King Rudolf von Habsburg, not, as is commonly believed, derived from the Swabian home Hohenberg, but from the home Homberg - Frohnburg. According to Tschudi Gertrude was the daughter of Count Louis and the sister of Count Hartmann IV and Count Herman However, as was the fact that Gertrud ( allegedly) also called von Hohenberg, remains to be clarified. The county Homberg was in fact only through marriage of their ( suspected of Tschudi ) brother Herman IV to the heiress of Count Werner III. Homberg to the Good Burger. Is refuted Undoubtedly, the theory Tschudi by a deed dated February 27, 1271 It sells her husband Rudolf, Count of Kyburg and the monastery of St. Margen Habsburg court in a Tiengen ( Freiburg im Breisgau), who gave him as a dowry of his wife Gertrud -. Nobilis mulieris Gertrudis uxoris - was pledged by Hohenberg. This transaction voted the brothers Gertrude " ... Nobilium virorum fratrum suorum Alberti, et Burchardi Vlrici Comitum de Hohinberg " expressly. Consequently, Gertrude was born with certainty from the house of the Counts of Hohenberg ( Swabia).
Marriage and issue
Gertrude married around 1253 in Alsace, Count Rudolf of Habsburg, son of Count Albrecht IV of Habsburg and his wife Countess Heilwig of Kyburg.
For twenty years, Gertrud von Hohenberg was a brave Burggräfin and held the household together. On October 1, 1273, the electors chose her husband, Count Rudolf IV of Habsburg, in Frankfurt am Main unanimously elected German king. After his coronation in Aachen she called herself Queen Anne.
From this marriage with Rudolf fourteen children were born ( six sons, eight daughters ), including:
- Mathilde (1253-1304) ∞ 1273 in Heidelberg with Ludwig II the Severe, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria
- Albert I (1255-1308) ∞ 1276 in Vienna with Elisabeth of Carinthia, Gorizia and Tyrol
- Catherine (1256-1282) ∞ 1279 in Vienna with Otto III. , Duke of Lower Bavaria
- Agnes Gertrude (1257-1322) ∞ 1273 in Wittenberg with Albrecht II von Anhalt, Duke of Saxe- Wittenberg
- Hedwig (1259-1303) ∞ 1279 in Lehnin with Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg
- Clementia (1262-1293) ∞ 1281 in Naples by Charles Martel, titular King of Hungary. Son of Charles II of Naples from the Angevins.
- Hartmann (1263-1281 drowned ) engaged to Princess Joan, daughter of King Edward I of England
- Rudolf II (1270-1290) ∞ 1289 in Prague with Agnes of Bohemia, daughter of King Ottokar II
- Guta ( Jutta ) ( 1271-1297 ) ∞ 1285 in Prague Wenceslas II, King of Bohemia
- Karl ( * / † 1276)
Tomb
In the choir aisle of the Basel Cathedral is her sarcophagus and her youngest son Karl. Her grave was moved along with the grave of her son Charles after the earthquake of 1356 on the left side of the choir. For the first time after this reburial of the grave was opened in 1510 by the Basel canons. The royal crown, a ring and a necklace were taken. A further opening of the tomb in 1770 followed this case their bones, and the bones of their dead sons Karl and Hartmann were transferred to the monastery of St. Blaise. ; today they rest in the monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant valley in Carinthia.
Today's tomb in St. Paul
Grave crown of Queen Anne of the Basel Cathedral Treasury, now in the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin