Agnes of Hungary
Agnes of Hungary (* around 1281 ; † June 11, 1364 in Königsfelden near Windisch , (today Switzerland )) from the Habsburg dynasty was the daughter of the German King Albrecht I and his wife Elisabeth of Gorizia . She was the wife of the Hungarian King Andreas III.
Life
Her marriage to the Hungarian king took place on February 13, 1296 in Vienna ; However, King Andreas died five years later and Agnes took over the education of her stepdaughter Elisabeth from then on . In 1308 Agnes' father was murdered near Windisch , not far from the ancestral castle of the Habsburgs . To commemorate this family tragedy, the widow Elisabeth von Görz-Tirol founded the Königsfelden monastery , a double convent of the Poor Clares and the Franciscan Minorites . Agnes lived there from 1317 without ever taking a vow. At the same time, her step daughter Elisabeth entered the nearby Dominican convent in Töss . The Königsfelden monastery flourished by means of extensive land purchases and economic skills. Among other things, she commissioned the building of the Königsfelden monastery church, which is one of the main works of mendicant order architecture in Switzerland.
From around 1330 Agnes stood by her younger brother, Duke Albrecht II , as an advisor, was the Habsburg representative in the Austrian foothills and acted as a mediator in numerous conflicts. In 1333 and 1340 she reached a peace between the cities of Bern and Freiburg in Üechtland . The mediation between Zurich , Rapperswil and the Waldstätten in 1351 failed.
Agnes of Hungary owned the sovereign rights over the Habsburg offices of Bözberg and Eigenamt as well as over the city of Brugg . She donated the hospital in Baden .
Meister Eckhart wrote the consolation book "Book of Divine Consolation" on her behalf.
funeral
She was buried in the church of the Königsfelden monastery . Through the solemn translation of the imperial-royal-ducal-Austrian highest corpses , she and the others first came to the St. Blasien Cathedral and, after the abolition of the St. Blasien monastery, to the collegiate church crypt of the St. Paul monastery in the Lavant valley in Carinthia.
literature
- Martina Wehrli-Johns: Agnes of Hungary. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Eduard Widmoser: Agnes of Austria. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 96 ( digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Agnes (Queen of Hungary) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860, p. 137 ( digital copy ).
- Ellen Widder : Reflections on the Political Effectiveness of Women in the 14th Century. Margarete Maultasch and Agnes of Hungary as heirs, wives and widows, in: 1363–2013. 650 years of Tyrol with Austria, ed. v. Christoph Haidacher and Mark Mersiowsky, Innsbruck 2015 (publications of the Tiroler Landesarchiv 20), pp. 91–134.
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| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| Fenena of Kuyavia | Queen of Hungary 1296–1301 |
Viola Elisabeth von Teschen |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agnes of Hungary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife and widow of the Hungarian King Andreas III. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1281 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1364 |
| Place of death | Königsfelden near Windisch |