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Matilde's paternal grandparents were Louis II, Duke of Bavaria and his third wife Matilda of Habsburg. Her maternal grandparents were Bolko I the Strict and his wife Beatrice of Brandenburg. She had two brothers, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria and Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria. Matilde also had two sisters, Anna and Agnes, however they both died young ...
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Matilda was the eldest daughter of Rudolf I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She became the third wife of Louis II, Duke of Bavaria, on 24 October 1273 in Aachen. Matilda and Louis had the following children: Rudolf I (4 October 1274, Basel – 12 August 1319). Mechthild (1275 – 28 March 1319, Lüneburg ), married 1288 to Duke Otto II of ...
MATILDA, EMPRESS. Lived from 1102 to 1167. Matilda was born Feb. 7, 1102 to King Henry I of England and his wife, Edith Matilda. At eight years of age she was sent to Germany as the bride of the Holy Roman Emperor, henry v. As an adult, she helped her husband govern his Italian lands and acted as regent for him upon occasion in Italy and ...
A possible matrimonial alliance between the House of Habsburg and the dukes of Burgundy had been suggested on the initiative of the Pope as early as 1463, but concrete negotiations were not begun between Maximilian’s father Frederick and Duke Charles the Bold until 1473. A youth of fourteen at the time, Maximilian encountered the magnificence of the Burgundian ducal court for
Poland. Romania. Ukraine. Luxembourg. The Habsburg monarchy ( German: Habsburgermonarchie, pronounced [ˈhaːpsbʊʁɡɐmonaʁˌçiː] ⓘ ), also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (German: Habsburgerreich [ˈhaːpsbʊʁɡɐˌʁaɪç] ⓘ ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled ...
Feb 28, 2018 · Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire (1459–1519) was the first great Habsburg emperor. The son of Emperor Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal, Maximilian succeeded his father in 1495 and was a gifted warrior and an ambitious politician who wanted as much power and international influence as he could get for himself and his royal dynasty.
