Margaretha von Staufen
Margaretha von Staufen (* late 1237 ; † August 8, 1270 ) was a Sicilian princess from the Staufer family and, by marriage, Landgravine of Thuringia .
Life
The daughter of Emperor Frederick II and his third wife Isabella of England became the first wife of Albrecht II ( the degenerate ) . The engagement took place in 1242. Margaretha received the Pleißnerland ( Altenburg , Zwickau , etc.) as a dowry . In 1254 or 1256 the wedding was held. She lived with her husband first on the Eckartsburg in Eckartsberga, then on the Wartburg .
After an alleged adultery between Albrecht and Kunigunde von Eisenberg , Margaretha left the Wartburg on June 24, 1270. Before that she supposedly bit her son Friedrich on the cheek; henceforth his name was Friedrich the bitten. Margaretha first went to the Krayenburg , from there to the Kreuzberg monastery (in today's Philippsthal (Werra) ), then to Fulda .
Finally she went to Frankfurt , where she was accommodated in the Weißfrauenkloster and died a little later. When excavations took place in 1953 as part of the demolition of the Weißfrauenkirche, which was destroyed in the Second World War , around 70 graves were found. The landgravine's grave could not be found.
progeny
Your children were:
- Heinrich (* March 21, 1256, † between January 25 and July 23, 1282), heir of the Pleißnerland, missing in Silesia
- Friedrich the bitten (* 1257, † November 16, 1323 at the Wartburg), married to Agnes von Gorizia and Tyrol , then to Elisabeth von Arnshaugk
- Dietrich (* 1260, † December 10, 1307 in Leipzig), married to Jutta von Henneberg
- Agnes (* before 1264, † after September 1332), married to Heinrich the Whimsical of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen before 1284 ; Mother of the Byzantine Empress Irene Alemanna
literature
- Franz Otto Stichart: Gallery of the Saxon Princesses; biogr. Sketches of all ancestors of the royal house of Saxony, Leipzig 1857
- Johannes Meyer: Female figures and women rulers in the Wettin house, Bautzen 1912
- Bernd Kaufmann: The slandered one. The story of Landgrave Albrecht II of Thuringia. First book: Margareta. BKP-Verlag GmbH, Zweibrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813424-0-6 and Der Verleumdete. The story of Landgrave Albrecht II of Thuringia. Second book: War of the Sons. BKP Verlag GmbH, Zweibrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813424-3-7 .
- Otto Dobencker : Margarete von Hohenstaufen, the ancestral mother of the Wettins. I (1236-1265) . Festschrift of the grammar school commemorating the elevation of the Duchy of S.-Weimar to the Grand Duchy (= supplement to the annual reports of the Grossh. Gymnasium in Jena ), Neuenhahn, Jena 1915 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Kirchner : History of the City of Frankfurt am Main , Part I, Frankfurt am Main 1807, p. 230
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margaretha von Staufen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Margaretha von Hohenstaufen; Margaretha of Sicily; Margaretha of Thuringia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Landgravine in Thuringia and Countess Palatine of Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1237 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1270 |