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Biography. Anne was the daughter of Polish Duke Henry II of Świdnica - Jawor from the Silesian branch of the Piast dynasty. Her mother was Katherine of Hungary, the daughter of Charles I of Hungary.
Apr 10, 2021 · Twice widowed he decided to marry his son’s fiancee, the young Anna of Schweidnitz and thus secure the Schweidnitz inheritance. Anna was the only child of Henry II, the grandson of King Władysław I of Poland. On her father’s death she was placed under the care of his elder brother, her uncle, Bolko II the Small.
Anna of Schweidnitz (Świdnica) was Queen of Bohemia, German Queen, and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She was the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.
Dec 30, 2022 · In March or April 1358, the Holy Roman Empress Anne of Świdnica (Anna von Schweidnitz) sent a now lost letter to Petrarch (1304–74), the humanist poet and scholar, informing him of her daughter Elizabeth's birth.
May 7, 2016 · Just five months after her death Charles married his third wife Anna von Schweidnitz, (1339–62). The bride was just 13 years old – and was originally intended for his son Vaclav – while...
Born around 1340; daughter of Henry II, duke of Schweidnitz; third wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman emperor (r. 1347–1378); children: Wenceslas IV (1361–1419), duke of Luxemburg (r. 1383–1419), king of Bohemia (r. 1378–1419), and Holy Roman emperor as Wenceslas (r. 1378–1400).
His workshop produced a series of superb portrait busts that line the triforium of the choir. Here we find likenesses of the members of the imperial family, among them Anna von Schweidnitz, the third wife of Charles IV. Parler included among these busts his self-portrait, too.
