Elisabeth of Hohenzollern-Nuremberg

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Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg, fresco around 1420 on the vaulted ceiling in the collegiate church (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse)
Ruprecht III. and Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg; Detail of her tomb in the Heiliggeistkirche (Heidelberg)

Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg (* 1358 ; † July 26, 1411 ) was the German Queen and Electress of the Palatinate .

She was born as the daughter of Burgrave Friedrich V of Nuremberg and his wife Margravine Elisabeth of Meißen and Thuringia.

On June 27, 1374 she married Ruprecht III in Amberg . , Elector of the Palatinate and from 1400 German King. The marriage had nine children. Queen Elizabeth died in 1411, just a year after her husband, at the age of 53. Both were buried in the Heiliggeistkirche in Heidelberg; her grave with a magnificent double epitaph has been preserved there.

In the collegiate church of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , a memoria of the House of Wittelsbach , King Ruprecht and his wife Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg, as well as their son Elector Ludwig III. von der Pfalz with his 1st wife Blanca von England contemporary, as life-size figures of a “Last Judgment”, painted on the choir ceiling.

Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg was the sister of Friedrich I of Brandenburg , the first Brandenburg Elector from the House of Hohenzollern and ancestor of the Prussian rulers.

progeny

  1. ⚭ 1401 Princess Blanca of England , from the House of Lancaster (1382–1409)
  2. ⚭ 1417 Princess Mechthild (Mathilde) of Savoy (1390–1438)
  1. ⚭ 1407 Princess Catherine of Pomerania (1390–1426)
  2. ⚭ 1428 Princess Beatrix of Bavaria-Munich (1403–1447), widow of Count Hermann III. by Cilli († 1426)

literature

  • Brigitte Sokop: Family tables of European rulers . 3rd edition Vienna 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo of the "Last Judgment" in the choir of the Neustadt / Weinstrasse collegiate church. The queen at the top left, upside down.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stiftskirche-nw.de