Isabella of Burgundy, Queen of Germany

Isabella of Burgundy ( * 1270, † by 1323 in Chambly ) also called Elizabeth or Agnes, was a Burgundian nobles from a collateral line of the Capetian and as the second wife of Rudolf I of Habsburg, German Queen from 1284 to 1291 she was one of. ten children of the Duke Hugo IV of Burgundy (1213-1272) from his second marriage with Beatrice of Champagne, princess of Navarre ( 1242-1295 ).

Life

Agnes was in the year of death of her father in 1272 as an infant with Charles of Flanders ( 1266-1277 ), engaged, son of Robert of Flanders, Count of Nevers and his first wife Blanche of Anjou; Charles died at the age of 11 years. On February 6, 1284 14 -year-old was married in Remiremont with more than 50 years her senior German King Rudolph I ( 1218-1291 ), who wrote about her 20,000 marks of silver as a dowry and 3,000 Mark as dowry and her brother, Duke Robert II of Burgundy (* 1248, † 1306), with the Dauphiné enfeoffed to stabilize its influence in Arelat.

She accompanied her husband on his restless travels and also in 1291 on his last ride to Speyer. As his successor withheld her jointure and dower, she eked out a modest existence in Basel and finally returned to the sale of their jewels to Burgundy, where they. Second marriage 1306 Pierre IX Chambly ( the younger ), Seigneur de Neauphle, married, to whom she bore two sons.

34696
de