Adelheid of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen

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Adelheid Princess of Braunschweig ( Czech Adléta Brunšvická ) (* 1285 ; † August 18, 1320 ) was the second wife of King Henry of Carinthia ( Czech Jindřich Korutanský ).

Life

She was the daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Braunschweig and his wife Agnes von Meißen .

She married (September 15, 1315 in Innsbruck ) the expelled Bohemian King and Duke Heinrich of Carinthia . It was probably a political marriage with which Heinrich wanted to strengthen his relations with allies and at the same time hoped to have an heir with the wife, who was thirty years his junior.

Even after the death of his first wife Anna Přemyslovna , he called himself the King of Bohemia and passed this title on to his wife. After the elections to the German king in 1314, Heinrich took the side of the Austrian Duke Frederick the Fair and was thereby further recognized as a Bohemian king by the German nobility. He did not intervene further in politics and so the title remained without power.

Without ever having seen Bohemia and without giving birth to an heir, she died at the age of thirty-five with the title of Bohemian queen.

progeny

The marriage had two children:

• Adelheid (* 1317 - † May 25, 1325)
• Margarete (* 1318 in Tyrol ; † October 3, 1369 in Vienna ); ∞ I: (September 14/16, 1330; divorced 1341) Johann Heinrich von Luxemburg (* February 12, 1322 in Prague ; † November 12, 1375 in Brno ); ∞ II: (February 10, 1342 at Castle Tyrol ) Ludwig "the Brandenburger" (* July 1316; † September 18, 1361 in Zorneding )

Web links

• Noble database of the University of Erlangen , accessed March 27, 2013
• genealogie-mittelalter.de
• familysearch.org
• MedLands genealogy