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Personal data Elizabeth OF HABSBURG 

• Also known as Elizabeth OF AUSTRIA.
• She was born in the year 1436.
• Title: Queen consort of Poland
• She died on August 30, 1505, she was 69 years old.
• A child of Albert II OF GERMANY and Elisabeth OF LUXEMBOURG

Household of Elizabeth OF HABSBURG

She is married to Casimir IV Jagiellon OF POLAND.

They got married on March 10, 1454, she was 18 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Barbara Jagiellon OF POLAND  1478-1534 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Elizabeth OF HABSBURG

Elisabeth of Habsburg (1436 - 30 August 1505; Polish: Elzbieta Rakuszanka or Elzbieta Habsburzanka, Hungarian: Erzsébet) was the wife of Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon (Polish: Kazimierz IV Jagiellonczyk); the queen-consort of Poland-Lithuania.

Elisabeth was the daughter of Albert II of Habsburg (1397-1439), known also as Albert of Hungary and King of Bohemia; and his wife Elisabeth of Luxembourg, daughter of King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Hungary. Upon the death of her father in 1439 she was brought up at the court of Frederick III in Vienna. There she became aquainted with many artists and poets. On 10 March 1454, she married King Casimir IV of Poland. Four of her sons became kings, which is why she is also called "mother of the Jagiellons" (or "mother of kings").

After the 1457 death of Elisabeth's childless brother, King Ladislaus the Posthumous, she and her family started to advance their claims to the thrones of Bohemia and Hungary. Ultimately, her eldest son became elected to both monarchies. Her younger sons, in turn, became monarchs of Poland and Lithuania.

Upon the death of her brother Ladislaus, his remaining heiresses shared the inherited rights in a way which put all their mother's rights to Polish principalities to Elisabeth and her children. Elisabeth's said mother, also named Elisabeth, was the only child of the then deceased Emperor Sigismund, himself the eldest son and heir of his mother, Elisabeth of Pomerania, heiress of her mother, Elisabeth of Poland, the eldest daughter of Casimir III of Poland who also had inherited the principality of Kujavia (the elder branch of Masovia-Sandomir) and some rights to successions in parts of Greater Poland and Silesian principalities (Wladyslaw the Short's wife was from Poznan branch and mother from Wroclaw and Legnica branch). Since 1431, no other legitimate descendants of Casimir III survived than Elisabeth of Pomerania's. This was the way some ancient Piast estate property passed to the Jagiellons.

In 1467, she renounced her claim to the Duchy of Luxembourg to Charles the Bold,[citation needed] Duke of Burgundy, whose father had bought the territory in 1443 from Elisabeth, Duchess of Luxembourg.

Elisabeth brought books, art and artists as well as printers to Krakow and upon the death of her husband in 1492 she had an elaborate tomb crafted by the artist Veit Stoss. She furnished her children, the boys as well as the girls, with good educations.

Casimir and Elisabeth had the following children:
Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (1456-1516), who became elected to thrones earlier held by Elisabeth's parents (Wladyslaw, Vladislav, Ulaszlo)
Hedwig (1457–1502). Duchess of Bavaria in Landshut, wife of Duke George.
Saint Casimir (Kazimierz) (1458-84)
John I Albert of Poland (Jan Olbracht, Jan Wojciech) (1459-1501)
Alexander (1461-1506) of Lithuania, then also of Poland
Sophia (Zofia) (1464-1512). Margravine of Brandenburg in Ansbach, wife of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and mother of Albert of Prussia
Elisabeth (Elzbieta) (1465-66)
Sigismund I of Poland (Zygmunt) (1467-1548)
Frederick (Fryderyk) (1468-1503) cardinal-archbishop of Gniezno.
Elisabeth (Elzbieta II) (1472-80)
Anna (1476-1503). Duchess of Pomerania, wife of Duke Bogislas X.
Barbara (1478-1534). Duchess of Sacony, wife of George, Duke of Saxony.
Elisabeth (Elzbieta)(1482-1517). Duchess of Legnica in Silesia, wife of Duke Frederick II.

Source: Wikipedia

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