Elisabeth of Luxembourg-Bohemia
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.
literature
- FB Fahlbusch: Elisabeth 15 . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters , Volume 3 (1986), Sp. 1837f.
- Elisabeth of Bohemia . In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 84.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Elisabeth von Böhmen (daughter of the emperor Karl IV. Von Böhmen) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860, p. 165 ( digital copy ).
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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 |