Agnes of Baden-Austria

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Agnes of Baden-Austria (* 1250 ; † January 2, 1295 ) was Duchess of Carinthia and Countess of Heunburg .

Life

Her father was Margrave Hermann VI. von Baden , her mother the Babenberg Duchess Gertrud of Austria . Some historians call Agnes the last Babenberger woman.

At the age of 14 she was born in 1263 with the Carinthian Duke Ulrich III. von Spanheim, whose first wife Agnes von Andechs had just passed away. Their marriage was childless.

In 1268 her brother Friedrich was executed in Naples together with his friend Konradin . King Ottokar of Bohemia , who after taking possession of the Babenberg lands of Austria and Styria wanted to eliminate all possible inheritance opponents, played a dubious role. He also had her mother Gertrud expelled into exile in Meißen in 1269 , where she died in 1288.

After the death of Duke Ulrich III. 1269, the year before his brother instead of Philip of Spanheim had his cousin King Ottokar using a fraudulent secret treaty (Podiebrad) to inherit his lands and honors employed Agnes was from this with Count Ulrich von Heunburg married in depressionem generis (around the house To humiliate Babenberg). The House of Heunburg , originally a noble family, had sunk to the position of ministerial of the Duke of Carinthia and therefore Count Ulrich was not a befitting match for Agnes. According to contemporary witnesses, Ulrich and Agnes are said to have had a happy marriage, especially since Ulrich gradually lost his original fervent admiration for King Ottokar.

Ulrich and Agnes tried together to assert Babenberg and Spanish inheritance and widow property claims - it was mainly about the county of Pernegg with the city of Drosendorf and other goods - but Ottokar forced them to renounce them. It was not until King Rudolf in 1279 - after the defeat and death of King Ottokar - that these claims were to be recognized and at least partially settled (donation of pledge in 1279, redemption in 1287 by Duke Albrecht ).

As a result, she stood by her husband's uprising against the new Carinthian rulers and against Duke Albrecht and followed him into exile in Wiener Neustadt , where she died in 1295. She is buried with the Viennese Minorites.

progeny

The following children arose from Agnes' marriage to Ulrich von Heunburg:

  • Katharina († around 1316) ∞ Ulrich II. Von Sanneck († 1315); First parents of the Counts of Cilli
  • Friedrich († 1317)
  • Hermann (†† 1322), extinction of the Heunburger in the male line
  • Margarete, 1. ∞ Liutold von Sanneck († 1286), 2. ∞ Count Ulrich IV. Von Pfannberg († 1311/18)
  • Elisabeth († 1329), 1. ∞ Count Hermann von Pfannberg, 2. ∞ Count Heinrich von Hohenlohe († 1329)
  • NNw, ∞ Konrad zu Rixingen († 1297)

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Naples
  2. ↑ Contemporary witness ( Ottokar from the Gaal )
  3. ↑ Waiver letter 1279
  4. ↑ RG1279
  5. ↑ RG1287

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personal data
SURNAME Agnes of Baden-Austria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Carinthia and Countess of Heunburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1250
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1295