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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: Agnes (d. 1345); married firstly, in 1290 in Donauwörth, Henry the Younger of Hesse.
Mar 26, 2024 · If Habsburg was to succeed Habsburg as emperor continuously from Frederick’s death in 1493 to Charles VI’s accession in 1711, the principal reason was that the hereditary lands of the Habsburgs formed an aggregate large enough and rich enough to enable the dynasty to impose its candidate on the other German electors (the Habsburgs ...
From the 1860s, the couple could no longer be said to have had a married life together. Franz Joseph and Elisabeth maintained a bond of friendship, corresponding and meeting regularly. ‘You have no idea how much I loved this woman’, Franz Joseph is said to have exclaimed after Elisabeth was murdered. With Elisabeth’s full support, she ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor; (September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493) was elected as German King as the successor of Albert II in 1440. Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest the Iron from the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family ruling Inner Austria, i.e. Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife Cymburgis of Masovia.
His boyhood was difficult. He witnessed the bitter rivalries within the dynasty, some of which erupted into military conflict at times. One early and probably also traumatic experience during his childhood was the siege of the Vienna Hofburg by his uncle, Albrecht VI, together with his aristocratic supporters and angry citizens in 1462. Aged just three, Maximilian was trapped
Mar 27, 2024 · Charles V (born February 24, 1500, Ghent, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died September 21, 1558, San Jerónimo de Yuste, Spain) was the Holy Roman emperor (1519–56), king of Spain (as Charles I; 1516–56), and archduke of Austria (as Charles I; 1519–21), who inherited a Spanish and Habsburg empire extending across Europe from Spain and the ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Death. Judith died 21 May 1297 in Prague, aged only twenty six. She died giving birth to her youngest child, Guta who also died. Her husband went onto marry Elisabeth Richeza of Poland who bore him a daughter, Agnes.
