Catherine of Habsburg (1295–1323)

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Katharina von Habsburg (* October 1295 in Vienna , † January 18, 1323 in Naples ) came from the house of the Habsburgs and was Duchess of Calabria by marriage from 1316 until her death .

Life

Katharina was the seventh of twelve children of the Roman-German King Albrecht I and his wife Elisabeth of Gorizia and Tyrol . She lost her father on May 1, 1308, when she was only twelve years old.

Tomb of Katharina von Habsburg in San Lorenzo Maggiore

Catherine's first engagement to Philip I of Piedmont , which did not result in marriage, is mentioned in the Turin State Archives , which took place in the first half of 1312 - between the death of Philip's first wife Isabelle de Villehardouin († 23 January 1312) and his on 7 May 1312 marriage to Catherine de la Tour du Pin - must have taken place. The Habsburgs then approached the House of Luxembourg ; As a result, Catherine was to marry Emperor Henry VII , whose wife Margaret of Brabant had died in December 1311. The bridal procession had already started moving to Italy when Henry VII died of malaria on August 24, 1313 in Buonconvento near Siena . Elisabeth von Aragón , who was a close friend of her sister-in-law Katharina, now managed to marry the later Sicilian King Peter II .

Frederick the Fair endeavored to carry out imperial politics in Italy by giving his then 21-year-old sister Katharina as wife to Duke Charles of Calabria in 1316 . The marriage remained childless. Just seven years later, Catherine died on January 18, 1323 in Naples and was buried in the local church of San Lorenzo Maggiore . After that, Charles of Calabria married Maria von Valois for the second time .

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Commons : Katharina von Habsburg  - collection of pictures

Remarks

  1. Birth and death dates according to Richard Reifenscheid: Albrecht I. In: Gerhard Hartmann, Karl Rudolf Schnith (ed.): Die Kaiser. 1996, ISBN 3-222-12421-3 , p. 391.
  2. Katharina's biography in Medieval Lands .
  3. Brigitte Hamann (ed.): The Habsburgs. P. 232.