Ancestral Trails 2016 » Katherina von SAXONY (1468-????)

Persoonlijke gegevens Katherina von SAXONY 

• Zij is geboren op 24 juli 1468 in Grimma, Muldentalkreis, Sachsen, Germany.
• Titel: Archduchess of Austria
• (Ancestry) : House of Wettin.
• Zij is overleden op 10 februari 1523/24 in Dresden, Stadt Dresden, Sachsen, Germany, zij was toen 54 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven februari 1523/24 in St Blasius, Hannoversch Münden, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.
• Een kind van Albrecht von SAXONY en Sidonie von PODEBRADY

Gezin van Katherina von SAXONY

Zij is getrouwd met Sigismund von ÖSTERREICH.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1484, zij was toen 15 jaar oud.

Notities over Katherina von SAXONY

Catherine of Saxony (24 July 1468 - 10 February 1524), a member of the House of Wettin, was the second wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria and Regent of Tyrol.

Born in Grimma, Catherine was the eldest child of Duke Albert III of Saxony and his wife, the Bohemian princess Sidonie of Poděbrady. Her paternal grandparents were Elector Frederick III of Saxony and Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Habsburg duke Ernest the Iron. Her maternal grandparents were King George of Poděbrady and his first wife Kunigunde of Sternberg. Catherine had three surviving brothers George, Henry and Frederick.

At the age of 16, in 1484 at the Innsbruck court, Catherine became the second wife of Archduke Sigismund, who was already 56 years old and regarded as senile. The archduke had previously been married to Princess Eleanor of Scotland, who had left him no surviving children. Likewise, the marriage of Catherine and Sigismund remained childless. Catherine played little part in the politics of Tyrol; moreover, a former lover of Sigismund intrigued against the young bride and falsely claimed in 1487 that Catherine was trying to poison her husband. As the political style of the archduke was no longer tenable, he was gradually losing control over his Tyrolean possessions to his cousin Emperor Frederick III. Constant quarrels with local nobles followed due to the newly introduced limitations Sigismund made. By his resignation in 1490, his wife Catherine had significantly less budget than before. In 1496 Sigismund died.

Soon after the archduke's death, in 1496/97, Catherine married the Welf duke Eric I of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ruler over the Principality of Calenberg. The marriage produced one short-lived daughter, Anna Maria. Catherine died in 1524 and was buried in St. Blaise's Church, Münden; her tombstone was created by Loy Hering. Duke Eric remarried Elisabeth of Brandenburg and had surviving children.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Saxony,_Archduchess_of_Austria

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