Catherine of Habsburg (1320-1349)

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

Katharina von Habsburg (born February 9, 1320 , † September 28, 1349 ) came from the house of the Habsburgs and was the wife of Enguerrand VI. de Coucy .

Life

Katharina von Habsburg was a daughter of Duke Leopold I of Austria and his wife Katharina von Savoyen . She had a sister named Agnes . When her father died in February 1326, she was placed under the guardianship of her two paternal uncles, Frederick the Fair and Albrecht II .

Duke Albrecht II also arranged for Katharina's proper marriage. In the presence of Pope Benedict XII. she married the French nobleman Enguerrand VI in Paris around 1338 . de Coucy, whose enormous physical strength is described in old chronicles. The marriage contract was signed on November 25, 1338 in Vincennes Castle . The couple had a son who, like his father , was named Enguerrand . During the armed conflicts in the initial phase of the Hundred Years War , Katharina's husband was killed in the skirmishes before or at the Battle of Crécy itself in 1346 .

A year later, Katharina made the acquaintance of Count Konrad II of Hardegg , Burgrave of Magdeburg, with whom she was married in 1348. Thus she entered into the first known morganatic love marriage in the Habsburg family. However, Albrecht II had not received any notice of this and, in his anger, expelled the four Hardegg brothers from the country, who, however, claimed the protection of the Roman-German King Charles IV .

In 1349, only three days after the death of her second husband Konrad, Catherine fell victim to the plague and was buried in the church of the Königsfelden monastery . In 1770, through the solemn translation of the imperial-royal-also-ducal-Austrian highest corpses, it was first transferred to the St. Blasien Cathedral and, after the abolition of the St. Blasien monastery in 1806, to the Spital am Pyhrn monastery , then in 1809 to the monastery crypt Sankt Paul im Lavanttal in Carinthia.

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Remarks

  1. So the information on Katharina in Medieval Lands ; according to the article Katharina , in: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , p. 233 Katharina's date of birth is unknown.
  2. So the information on Katharina in Medieval Lands ; according to the article Katharina , in: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , p. 233 Katharina died on October 28, 1349.