Helena of Austria

Archduchess Helene of Austria as a canoness in Hall, detail from a painting by Francesco Terzio , around 1565

Archduchess Helena of Austria

Helena of Austria , also Helene of Austria (born January 7, 1543 in Vienna , † March 5, 1574 in Hall in Tirol ), was Archduchess of Austria and co-founder and canon of the Haller Damenstift .

Helene was a daughter of the future Emperor Ferdinand I (1503–1564) from his marriage to Anna Jagiello (1503–1547), the daughter of King Vladislav II of Bohemia and Hungary . Helene was raised by Jesuits . Because of her physical constitution, Helene was considered unsuitable for marriage by her father and therefore intended for monastic life .

Together with her sisters Magdalene and Margarethe , Helene founded the Haller Damenstift, which they moved into in 1568, and the Jesuit college there in 1573 with a grammar school. Helene died in the monastery at the age of 31 and was buried in the Jesuit church in Hall.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Helene . No. 111. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, p. 277 ( digitized version ).
Ferdinand Leopold, Freiherr von Biedenfeld: origin, revival ... and current conditions of all monastic and nunnery orders in the Orient and Occident. 1837, p. 332 digitized

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Tersch: Austrian testimonies of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400–1650). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1998, p. 261
^ Johann Jacob Staffler: Tyrol and Vorarlberg: in 2 parts. Tyrol and Vorarlberg, statistically: with historical remarks. Volume 1, Rauch, 1839, p. 512
↑ Jacob Probst: History of the University in Innsbruck from its creation up to 1860. 1869, p. 2 digitized
^ Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi: Genealogical history of the hereditary imperial estates in Germany. Volume 2, Gebauer, 1779, p. 448

personal data
SURNAME	Helena of Austria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Helene of Austria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Archduchess of Austria, co-founder of the women's monastery in Hall in Tirol
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1543
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1574
Place of death	Hall in Tirol

[1] Harald Tersch: Austrian testimonies of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400–1650). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1998, p. 261

[2] Johann Jacob Staffler: Tyrol and Vorarlberg: in 2 parts. Tyrol and Vorarlberg, statistically: with historical remarks. Volume 1, Rauch, 1839, p. 512

[3] Jacob Probst: History of the University in Innsbruck from its creation up to 1860. 1869, p. 2 digitized

[4] Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi: Genealogical history of the hereditary imperial estates in Germany. Volume 2, Gebauer, 1779, p. 448