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Countess Anna of Schaunberg. Barbara of Cilli or Barbara of Celje ( Hungarian: Cillei Borbála, German: Barbara von Cilli, Slovenian and Croatian: Barbara Celjska, 1392 – 11 July 1451), was the Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. She was actively involved in politics and economy of ...
Sep 7, 2014 · With these words is Barbara of Cilli, the central person of this thesis, described in Johann Jakob Fugger’s Spiegel der Ehren des Hoechstloeblichsten Kayser- und Koeniglichen 2 contemporary, Aenea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-1464), the later Pope Pius II, chancellor of Frederick III of Habsburg (1415-1493), who later became the Holy Roman Emperor.
Cilli. The humanist historian Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini, later to be elected Pope Pius II, chronicled her in his . Historia Bohemica. written in 1458. Piccolomini hated the Cilli family in general, and Barbara in . 1. For general information about the Cilli Counts see Franz Krones, Diezeitgenössischen Quellen zur Geschichte der Grafen von Cilli.
- Raymond T McNally
- 2001
Barbara of Cilli or Barbara of Celje, was the Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. She was actively involved in politics and economy of her times, independently administering large feudal fiefdoms and taxes, and was instrumental in creating the famous royal Order of the Dragon. She served as the regent of Hungarian kingdom in the ...
Author: Daniela Dvořáková. This is the first biography of Barbara of Cilli (1392-1451), Hungarian, Roman-German and Bohemian queen through her marriage to King and later Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437).
- Daniela Dvořáková
- September 20, 2021
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The Counts of Celje ( Slovene: Celjski grofje) or the Counts of Cilli ( German: Grafen von Cilli; Hungarian: cillei grófok) were the most influential late medieval noble dynasty on the territory of present-day Slovenia. Risen as vassals of the Habsburg dukes of Styria in the early 14th century, they ruled the County of Cilli as immediate ...
Barbara of Cilli (fl. 1390–1410) Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Name variations: Borbala Cillei; Barbara Cilli. Flourished from 1390 to 1410; daughter of Count William of Cilli; second wife of Zygmunt also known as Sigismund I of Luxemburg, king of Hungary and Bohemia (r. 1387–1437), Holy Roman emperor (r. 1410–1437); children:Elizabeth of Luxemburg (1409–1442, who married Albert II ...
