Margaret of Sicily

Margaretha von Staufen ( * end of 1237; † August 8, 1270 ) was a Sicilian princess from the House of Hohenstaufen and by marriage countess in Thuringia.

Life

The daughter of Emperor Frederick II and his fourth wife Isabella of England was the first wife of Albert II ( the degenerate ). 1242 was the engagement. As dowry Margaretha received the Pleißnerland ( Altenburg, Zwickau, etc.). 1254 or 1256 wedding was held. She lived with her husband only on the Eckartsburg in Eckartsberga, then at the Wartburg.

After an alleged adultery Albrechts with Cunegonde of Eisenberg Margaretha departed from the Wartburg on 24 June 1270. Previously, she allegedly bit her son Frederick in the cheek; he was henceforth Frederick the Bitten. Margaretha went first to the Krayenburg, from there to the Kreuzberg Monastery (now in Philipp (Werra )), then to Fulda and finally to Frankfurt, where it was well received by the citizens as the daughter of Frederick II. She died in the first days of August 1270 in the Frankfurter Stauferpfalz.

Progeny

Their children were:

  • Heinrich ( born March 21, 1256 † 25 January to 23 July 1282), heir to the Pleißnerlandes, lost in Silesia
  • Frederick the Bitten (* 1257, † November 16, 1323 at the Wartburg, married to Agnes of Carinthia, then with Elizabeth of Arnshaugk )
  • Dietrich (* 1260, † December 10, 1307 in Leipzig)
  • Agnes ( * before 1264, † after September 1332 ), married before 1284 to Henry the strange ones of Brunswick- Grubenhagen; Mother of the Greek Empress Irene Alemanna )
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