Guta von Habsburg

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Guta ( Jutta , actually Juditha ) von Habsburg (born March 13, 1271 in Rheinfelden , † June 18, 1297 in Prague ) was a Queen of Bohemia by marriage .

Life

Guta was the daughter of Count Rudolf von Habsburg and his first wife Gertrud von Hohenberg . After an agreement with Kunigunde von Halitsch , she was promised to the Bohemian King Wenceslaus II of the same age at the age of seven . In 1285 she was taken to her husband at Eger Castle , where her father, King Rudolf, gave the castle and town of Eger to Ottokar's son as an imperial fief, presumably as a wedding gift. The re- consecration of the Franciscan Church, which was founded in 1260 and burned down in 1270, was attended by the Regensburg Bishop Heinrich on January 26, 1285. The wedding was accompanied by a large gathering of European nobility. The wedding procession then moved on to Prague , where the wedding took place on February 7th. The Queen did not finally move into Prague until two years later.

Directed by her family , she influenced the young king and fueled his plans for expansion towards Silesia and Poland . During the nine-year marriage she gave birth to ten children, of which only the son Václav and the daughters Anna , Elisabeth and Margarethe survived. Both of the first-mentioned daughters later became Bohemian queens. Guta introduced German customs at the royal court. The most important was the presence of the knights. It continued the opening of Prague to the west, which Kunigunde von Swabia had already operated, and gradually the city became a center of Central European high medieval court culture.

Guta tried to find a reconciliation between Wenceslaus II and her brother, Duke Albrecht of Austria. Through them the brothers-in-law became allies for a few years, but this ended with Albrecht's invasion of Bohemia in 1304, shortly before Wenceslas death. This connection brought Albrecht the Roman-German royal crown and Wenceslaus a free hand to expand to Poland. The queen played a not insignificant role in Bohemian foreign policy. She was crowned in 1297, but died on June 18 of the same year after the birth of her daughter Guta.

Guta von Habsburg in literature

The heavily on Wolfram von Eschenbach leaning against verse novel Wilhelm of Wenden of Ulrich von Etzenbach Wenceslas II and Guta as a pagan Prince William with his wife Bene, a fate following the pattern of the Christian. Eustachiuslegende shown: The couple must on a pilgrimage their twins at leave strangers behind. The children, raised separately, become feared robbers and only when their parents profess Christianity are reunited with their parents in repentance. Guta (the Princess Bene) is portrayed in this key novel in German as the ideal type of a Christian princess.

literature

Bertold Bretholz : History of Bohemia and Moravia up to the extinction of the Przemyslids (1306). , Volume I, Section 1, Munich and Leipzig 1912, therein : pp. 95, 96 and 162
Marianne Wintersteiner: Guta von Habsburg: biographical novel , Salzer Verlag, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 978-3-7936-0327-6 . 275 pages

Web links

Kulturportal-west-ost.eu/biographien: Guta von Habsburg

Individual evidence

↑ Ferdinand B. Mikovec: Picturesque-historical sketches from Bohemia , Vienna and Olmüz 1860, therein: Die Burg Eger , p. 228 (see online )
^ Hermann von Liebenau: Life story of Queen Agnes of Hungary, the last Habsburg woman of the illustrious family house from Aargaue , Regensburg 1868, p. 30
↑ The daughter of Wenceslas II. Agnes was the stepsister from the connection between Wenceslas and his second wife Elisabeth Richza of Poland . See : Václav Vladivoj von Tomek: History of the City of Prague, Volume 1, Prague 1856, p. 523 ( online )
^ Gerhard Eis: Kleine Schriften: zur Old German secular poetry , Verlag Rodopi NV, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 90-6203-418-7 , p. 419
^ Anne Silbereisen: Bene - the good woman in Ulrich von Etzenbach's Wilhelm von Wenden , student thesis, GRIN Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-640-09907-8 . P. 11 f.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Kunigunde von Halitsch	Queen of Bohemia 1285–1297	Elisabeth Richza of Poland

personal data
SURNAME	Guta von Habsburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jutta von Habsburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	bohemian queen
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1271
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheinfelden
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 1297
Place of death	Prague

[1] Ferdinand B. Mikovec: Picturesque-historical sketches from Bohemia , Vienna and Olmüz 1860, therein: Die Burg Eger , p. 228 (see online )

[2] Hermann von Liebenau: Life story of Queen Agnes of Hungary, the last Habsburg woman of the illustrious family house from Aargaue , Regensburg 1868, p. 30

[3] The daughter of Wenceslas II. Agnes was the stepsister from the connection between Wenceslas and his second wife Elisabeth Richza of Poland . See : Václav Vladivoj von Tomek: History of the City of Prague, Volume 1, Prague 1856, p. 523 ( online )

[4] Gerhard Eis: Kleine Schriften: zur Old German secular poetry , Verlag Rodopi NV, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 90-6203-418-7 , p. 419

[5] Anne Silbereisen: Bene - the good woman in Ulrich von Etzenbach's Wilhelm von Wenden , student thesis, GRIN Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-640-09907-8 . P. 11 f.