Elisabeth of Virneburg

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Epitaph with the coat of arms of the Habsburgs in the collegiate church of St. Paul in Lavanttal

Elisabeth von Virneburg (* around 1303 in Virneburg ; † September 14, 1343 in Königsfelden ) was a daughter of Robert II. Von Virneburg, sister of Robert III. von Virneburg and the wife of Duke Heinrich the Meek .

Life

Elisabeth was married to her husband Heinrich at an early age in October 1314 in Vienna in order to receive the electoral vote of her uncle, Archbishop Heinrich II of Cologne , for the election of Frederick the Fair as King. Their marriage was childless. In February 1327, Henry the Meek died; Elisabeth survived him by 16 years.

She was buried in the church of the Königsfelden monastery . In 1770 their bones came through the ceremonial translation of the imperial-royal-also-ducal-Austrian highest corpses, first to the St. Blasien Cathedral and, after the abolition of the St. Blasien monastery in 1806, to the Spital am Pyhrn monastery , then to the Collegiate church crypt of the monastery Sankt Paul im Lavanttal in Carinthia.

The description of the reburial by Franz Kreutter mentions that she died at the age of about 42. She only wore a simple linen dress, presumably she had entered the Königsfelden monastery.

literature

  • Martin Gerbert , Franz Kreutter : Solemn translation of the imperial-royal- also ducal-Austrian tallest corpses from their grave towns of Basel and Königsfelden in Switzerland to the princely monastery of St. Blasien in the Black Forest in the 14th winter month of 1770. , (Uffizin of the St. Blasien), St. Blasien, 1770, 38 p. [2]
  • Elisabeth of Virneburg . In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 83f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Gerbert, Franz Kreutter: Feyerliche translation of the imperial-royal- also ducal-Austrian highest corpses from their burial towns Basel and Königsfelden in Switzerland to the princely monastery St. Blasien in the Black Forest in the 14th winter month 1770. , (Uffizin des Klosters St . Blasien), St. Blasien, 1770, [1] p. 17
personal data
SURNAME Elisabeth of Virneburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess and wife of Duke Henry the Meek
DATE OF BIRTH around 1303
PLACE OF BIRTH Virneburg
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1343
Place of death Koenigsfelden