Judith of Habsburg

Guta ( Jutta ) von Habsburg (* March 13, 1271 in Rheinfelden, † June 18, 1297 in Prague) was a Queen of Bohemia by marriage.

Life

Guta was the daughter of Count Rudolf of Habsburg and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg. It was promised by an agreement with Cunegonde of Halych seven years his peer Czech King Wenceslas II. They married in 1285 in Eger, to Prague drew a queen until two years later. She took, directed by her family, influence on the young king and fueled its expansion plans towards Silesia and Poland. During the nine years of marriage, she brought ten children into the world, of which only the son of Vaclav and daughters Anna, Elizabeth, Agnes and Margaret survived. Both former daughters were later Bohemian queens. At the royal court Guta led a German customs. The most important was the presence of the knights. So you led the opening of Prague against the West continued, which had already operated Cunegonde of Swabia, and gradually the city became the center of the Central European cultural scene.

Guta strove for reconciliation between Wenceslas II and her brother, Duke Albrecht of Austria. Through them, the brother in law were allies for several years, but this incident with the Albrechts to Bohemia in 1304, shortly before the death of Wenceslas ended. Albrecht brought this connection, the Roman- German King Wenceslas crown and a free hand to expand to Poland. The Queen played a not insignificant role in the Czech foreign policy. In 1297 she was crowned, but died on 18 June of the same year after the birth of his daughter Guta.

• Queen (Bohemia )
• Habsburg
• German
• Born in 1271
• Died in 1297
• Woman