Elisabeth of Luxembourg-Bohemia

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Elisabeth and Albrecht III.

Elisabeth of Luxembourg-Bohemia (born March 19, 1358 in Prague ; † September 4 or September 19, 1373 in Vienna ) was the only daughter from the third marriage of Emperor Charles IV with Anna von Schweidnitz . Her brother was the future Roman-German King Wenceslaus .

Francesco Petrarca sent a letter of congratulations on the birth of Elizabeth . As only five years old, the emperor's daughter was 1363/1364 in Nuremberg with Otto V. , engaged, the later Margrave of Brandenburg. However, the engagement was broken in 1366, because the Emperor Elisabeth for a marriage with the Habsburg Duke Albrecht III. needed. The marriage was a move by the emperor to prevent the Habsburg Duke from joining forces with Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Taranto, the heir to the Hungarian King Ludwig I , and instead to betroth her to his own son Wenceslaus. Instead, Otto V received Elisabeth's widowed older half-sister, Katharina von Luxemburg , who was first married to the brother of Albrecht III, Rudolf IV , who died in 1365 , and for this reason was out of the question for a marriage to Albrecht. On March 19, 1366 the double wedding of the two sisters took place in Prague. This is how a Bohemian-Austrian alliance came about, which secured the Habsburgs' possession of Tyrol , among other things . Elisabeth died childless in Vienna at the age of 15. She found her final resting place in the church of the Kartause Gaming , in the Habsburg burial place there.

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SURNAME Elisabeth of Luxembourg-Bohemia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elisabeth, Duchess of Austria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Emperor Charles IV and Duchess of Austria
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1358
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1373 or September 19, 1373
Place of death Vienna