Catherine of Savoy

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

Catherine of Savoy (* between 1297 and 1304 in Brabant ; † September 30, 1336 in Rheinfelden ) was a princess of Savoy and the wife of the Habsburg Duke Leopold I the Glorious .

Family and life

Catherine was a daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy and his second wife Maria of Brabant . As a result of the rapprochement between the Habsburgs and the Luxembourgers , talks began in 1310 about a marriage between Catherine and Duke Leopold I of Austria. On May 26, 1315, the couple finally got married in Basel . The marriage resulted in two daughters, of whom Katharina was the wife of Enguerrand VI. de Coucy and Agnes became the wife of Duke Bolko II von Schweidnitz-Jauer. Katharina was also politically active and often maintained contacts with Pope John XXII. In 1326 she became a widow.

funeral

After her death in 1336, Katharina was first 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 , after the abolition of the St. Blasien Monastery in 1806 in the Spital am Pyhrn Abbey and in 1809 in the collegiate church crypt of the St. Paul in Lavanttal in Carinthia.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Elisabeth of Savoy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860, p. 165 ( digital copy ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Katharina von Savoyen . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, p. 400 ( digitized version ).
• Catherine of Savoy . In: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): The Habsburgs . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3247-3 , p. 233.