Elisabeth of Tirol

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Elisabeth de Gorizia de Tirol de Carantania (c. 1262 – 28 October 1312) was Queen consort of the Holy Roman Empire and Duchess of Austria, etc.

[edit] Family

She was the eldest daughter of Meinhard II, Duke of Carinthia, count of Gorizia and Tyrol.

Her mother was his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria. She was a daughter of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria and his wife Agnes, herself daughter of Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Agnes of Hohenstaufen. Her mother was also the widow of Conrad IV of Germany. Therefore, the young Elisabeth was a half-sister of Conradin, King of Jerusalem etc and Duke of Swabia who was killed in 1268.

The younger Elisabeth was from 1274 the wife of the future Albert I of Germany, one of the founders of the House of Habsburg, becoming thus daughter-in-law of the King of the Romans. Her husband, then a Count of Habsburg was invested as Duke of Austria and Styria in December 1282 by his father the King Rudolf. They solidified their rule in what was to become the Habsburg patrimony, also by help of Elisabeth's father who in his turn in 1286 was created Duke of Carinthia.

In 1298, her husband was finally elected the King upon the end of the reign of Adolf of Nassau. Her husband was murdered on 1 May 1308 by his nephew John "the Parricide".

[edit] Marriage and children

She was married in Vienna on 20 December 1274 to the future Albert I of Germany. Their children were:

1. Rudolph III (ca. 1282–4 July 1307, Horazdiowitz), Married but line extinct and predeceased his father.
2. Frederick I (1289–13 January 1330, Gutenstein). Married but line extinct.
3. Leopold I (4 August 1290–28 February 1326, Strassburg). Married but line extinct.
4. Albert II (12 December 1298, Vienna–20 July 1358, Vienna).
5. Heinrich (1299–3 February 1327, Bruck an der Mur). Married but line extinct.
6. Meinhard, 1300 died young.
7. Otto (23 July 1301, Vienna–26 February 1339, Vienna). Married but line extinct.
8. Anna 1280?, Vienna–19 March 1327, Breslau), married:
   1. in Graz ca. 1295 to Margrave Hermann of Brandenburg;
   2. in Breslau 1310 to Duke Heinrich VI of Breslau.
9. Agnes (18 May 1281–10 June 1364, Königsfelden), married in Vienna 13 February 1296 King Andrew III of Hungary.
10. Elisabeth (d. 19 May 1353), married 1304 Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine.
11. Katharina (1295–18 January 1323, Naples), married 1316 Charles, Duke of Calabria.
12. Jutta (d. 1329), married in Baden 26 March 1319 Count Ludwig VI of Öttingen.

Preceded by Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg

German Queen 1298–1 May 1308

Succeeded by Margaret of Brabant

[edit] External links

• A list of her maternal ancestors