Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia
Margaret of Babenberg, and Margaret of Austria, Czech Markéta Babenberská, (* 1204 or 1205; † October 29, 1266 at the Krumlov castle at Kamp ) was the wife of the German heir Henry ( VII ) and first wife of the Bohemian King Ottokar Přemysl II
Life
Margerete was the daughter of the Austrian Duke Leopold VI. of Babenberg and Theodora Angels, daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II on November 29, 1225 she married King Henry ( VII ), the son of Emperor Frederick II Their coronation took place in Aachen on March 28, 1227. Henry was imprisoned after the failed uprising against his father in 1235 and died in 1242; Margaret then went to the same year in the seclusion of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine in Trier and from 1244 to the monastery of St. Mark in Würzburg same order.
After the death of her childless brother of Frederick II in the Battle of the Leitha ( 1246 ) tried to enforce their rights of succession to the duchies of Austria and Styria against her niece Gertrude. King Wenceslas I of Bohemia wanted to collect these duchies by a wedding of his firstborn with Vladislav Frederick niece Gertrude. But Vladislav died in 1247th After Gertrude's second marriage with the Margrave of Baden and Hermann 's death in 1250 took to the ruler loose time.
The Austrian nobility offered Wenceslas younger son Otakar II to the domination of the duchies. However, the prerequisite for this was the marriage with an heiress. Ottokar refused to marry the widow of his brother and married on February 11, 1252 Margaret in the castle chapel of Hainburg. The bride was older than her father King Wenceslas I. Here, let Ottokar which sealed with a golden bull imperial privileges, the privilege minus and its confirmation by Emperor Frederick II in the year 1245, passed. This rendered Margarete dominion of the duchies of Austria and Styria to her husband. Pope Innocent IV, who had switched sides a few times between Gertrude and Margaret, confirmed the lawful transfer of the two duchies on May 6, 1252. In a document dated 16 June 1252 in which the provost Ardagger was secured their toll right, she called herself beside her title Romanorum ( quondam ) regina for the first time ducissa Austrie et Stirie ac marchionissa Moravie. In 1260 they called in a document as a dominant regni bohemian.
As a 50 -year-old but she was unable to beget heirs with him. Ottokar tried over the pope, the illegitimate son he had with one of Margaret's maids to be legitimated as the rightful successor. After the Pope refused this, separated Ottokar 1261 by Margarete. She went back to Krumlov am Kamp and spent the winter in Krems. In Krumlov, she confirmed Status Privileges her brother Frederick and King Conrad III. and granted the villages in the district court district Pölla - Krumlov freedom from the District Court ( que nostre iurisdictioni subiacent per omnes terminos de Polan quibus speciali iure dominamur ). This crime punishable by death by the officers, the monastery only had to be delivered to the judge.
After her separation from Ottokar she called herself Romanorum quondam regina, but retained the title ducissa Austrie et Stirie at. It was not until 1266 they uncertificated as quondam filia Livpoldi illustris ducis Austrie et Stirie et Romanorum regina and referred to as her father. For the same 1266 comes the last recorded deed of Margaret. Therein the village Grafenberg from the parish Eggenburg to the Lilienfeld is paid. This monastery they had selected as a tomb. The date of her death is controversial. Some sources give 1266, while others occupy the 2nd or October 12, 1267. She was buried according to their desire on the side of her father in Lilienfeld.