Isabella of Burgundy

Isabella of Burgundy

Isabella of Burgundy (* around 1270, † around 1323 in Chambly ) also called Elisabeth or (more rarely) Agnes , was a Burgundian noblewoman from a branch of the Capetians and, as the second wife of Rudolf I von Habsburg, German queen from 1284 to 1291. She was one of ten children of Duke Hugo IV of Burgundy (1213-1272) from his second marriage to Béatrice of Champagne, Princess of Navarre (1242-1295).

Life

Isabella was betrothed to Karl von Flandern (1266–1277), son of Robert von Flandern , Count of Nevers, and his first wife Bianca von Anjou, in the year of her father's death in 1272 ; Karl died at the age of 11. On February 6, 1284, the 14-year-old was married in Remiremont to the more than 50 years older Roman-German King Rudolf I (1218–1291), who signed her 20,000  silver marks as a marriage good and 3,000 marks as a morning gift and her brother, Duke Robert II of Burgundy (1248–1306), with whom Dauphiné enfeoffed in order to stabilize his influence in the Arelat (Burgundy). But the political expectations that Rudolf associated with this marriage did not materialize; instead, anti-Habsburg tendencies even increased French influence in the Arelat.

Isabella accompanied her husband on his travels and also on his last ride to Speyer in 1291. Since his successors withheld their Wittum and Morgengabe, they had only modest means and finally returned to Burgundy after selling their treasures. There she married Pierre IX in second marriage in 1306. von Chambly (the younger), Seigneur de Neauphle , with whom she had two sons. After her death she was buried in the Augustinian Church in Paris .

literature

• Thomas Michael Martin: Agnes (Isabella, Elisabeth) of Burgundy, German Queen † 1323 . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 213. ( digitized version )
• Heath Service, Art. Agnes (Isabelle) of Burgundy. In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger: Ein biographisches Lexikon , Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3247-3 , p. 29.

Web links

• Imprint of the seal of Isabella of Burgundy, widow of Rudolf I von Habsburg with the Latin inscription: "SIGILLUM ELIZABETH DEI GRATIA REGINE ROMANORUM" (Seal of Isabella, by God's grace Roman Queen)
• Genealogy of Isabella of Burgundy ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on genealogie-mittelalter.de, as of: September 30, 2007, in the Internet Archive at archive.org

Remarks

1. ↑ RI VI, 1, No. 1814a. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Karl-Friedrich Krieger: Rudolf von Habsburg. Darmstadt 2003, p. 210. 

predecessor	Office	Successor
Gertrud von Hohenberg	Roman-German queen 1284–1291	Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg