Elisabeth of Aragon

This article deals with the Duchess of Austria and Styria, on the Queen of France see Isabella von Aragón .

Elisabeth von Aragón , Spanish Isabel de Aragón (* 1300 or 1302; † July 12, 1330 in Upper Styria) was Queen of the Holy Roman Empire and Duchess of Austria and Styria as the wife of the Habsburg Frederick the Beautiful .

Life

Elisabeth was a daughter of King James II of Aragon and his second wife, Princess Blanka of Naples and Sicily. She was raised by the Byzantine Empress Konstanze , the daughter of Emperor Frederick II , who was related to her .

First Elisabeth was betrothed to King Oshin of Armenia in 1312/13 , because her father wanted to have the relics of St. Thekla in Sis in Armenia transferred to the cathedral of Tarragona in return . The marriage negotiations failed because of the Armenian resistance to closer relations with the Catholic Western powers. In 1313 Elisabeth was then married in Barcelona to Frederick the Beautiful, represented by a procurator, who had applied for her since 1311 and had met the conditions of Jacob II in long negotiations. The train with the bride and her rich bride and groom did not arrive in Austria until the beginning of 1314 ; the wedding then took place on January 31 of this year in Judenburg . In October 1314 her husband was elected king, at Whitsun 1315 she was crowned queen in Basel . The marriage was evidently harmonious, but it was accompanied by some financial problems.

The election of a king and the subsequent armed conflict with Ludwig the Bavarian brought down her husband in costs and Elisabeth repeatedly had to sacrifice jewelry. While her husband was imprisoned for two and a half years after the Battle of Mühldorf , Elisabeth underwent severe mortifications that endangered her health. Her husband died on January 13, 1330, Elisabeth only survived him a few months. She was buried in the Minorite Church in Vienna .

progeny

• Friedrich (* 1316; † 1322)
• Elisabeth (1317 - 23 October 1336)
• Anna (1318--14 December 1343)

1. ⚭ 1328 in Landshut, Duke Heinrich III. of Lower Bavaria (1312-1333),
2. ⚭ 1336 in Gorizia Count Johann von Görz (1322–1338).

literature

• Stefanie Dick: Isabella von Aragón and Frederick the Beautiful Marriage policy under the sign of royalty. In: Matthias Becher, Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck (Hrsg.): The medieval succession to the throne in European comparison. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50546-2 , pp. 165-180.

Remarks

1. ^ Charles Cawley, Aragón, Medieval Lands .
2. ↑ Thus the article on Elisabeth in Brigitte Hamann (ed.), Die Habsburger , p. 83. Richard Reifenscheid ( King Friedrich "der Schöne" [ King Friedrich ]) names differently . In: Gerhard Hartmann, Karl Rudolf Schnith (ed.): Die Kaiser . 1996 , ISBN 3-222-12421-3 , p. 400) May 11, 1314 as the marriage date of Elisabeth and Friedrich the Handsome; According to this source, the wedding took place at Gutenstein Castle .