- Gertrude of Hohenburg
Gertrude of Hohenburg (c. 1225 –
16 February ,1281 ,Vienna ) was the firstQueen consort ofRudolph I of Germany .Family
She was born to
Burchard V, Count of Hohenberg (d. 1253) and his wife Mechtild ofTübingen .Her paternal grandparents were
Burchard IV, Count of Hohenberg and his unnamed wife. Her maternal grandparents wereRudolph II, Count palatine and his wife, a daughter ofHenry, Margrave of Ronsberg and Udilhild ofGammertingen .Burchard IV was a son of
Burchard III, Count of Hohenberg .Burchard III was one of two sons of
Burchard II, Count of Hohenberg . He was co-ruler with his brotherFrederick, Count of Hohenberg . His brother had no known descendants and the two brothers consequently had a single successor.Burchard II was one of five known sons of
Frederick I, Count of Zollern and his wife Udachild ofUrach .Frederich I was the son of
Burchard I, Count of Zollern . He was the founder of the so-calledBurchardinger family line, male-line ancestors of theHouse of Hohenzollern .Marriage and children
In 1245, Gertrude married Rudolph IV, Count of Habsburg. They had nine children:
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Albert I of Germany (July 1255 –1 May ,1308 ),Duke of Austria and also ofStyria .
# Hartmann (1263,Rheinfelden –21 December 1281 ), drowned inRheinau .
#Rudolph II, Duke of Austria and Styria (1270–10 May 1290 ,Prague ), titularDuke of Swabia , father of John the Patricide of Austria.
# Matilda (ca. 1251/53, Rheinfelden–23 December 1304 ,Munich ), married 1273 inAachen toLouis II, Duke of Bavaria and became mother of Rudolf I, Count Palatine of the Rhine andLouis IV, Holy Roman Emperor .
# Katharina (1256–4 April 1282 ,Landshut ), married 1279 inVienna toOtto III, Duke of Bavaria who later (after her death) became the disputed KingBela V of Hungary and left no surviving issue.
# Agnes (ca. 1257–11 October 1322 ,Wittenberg ), married 1273 toAlbert II, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and became the mother ofRudolf I, Elector of Saxony .
# Hedwig (d. 1285/86), married 1270 in Vienna toOtto VI, Margrave of Brandenburg and left no issue.
# Klementia (ca. 1262–after7 February 1293 ), married 1281 in Vienna toCharles Martel of Anjou , the Papal claimant to the throne ofHungary and mother of kingCharles I of Hungary , as well as of queen Clementia of France, herself the mother of the baby kingJohn I of France .
#Judith of Habsburg (13 March 1271 –18 June 1297 ,Prague ), married24 January 1285 to KingWenceslaus II of Bohemia and became the mother of kingWenceslaus III of Bohemia , Poland and Hungary, of queenAnna I of Bohemia , duchess of Carinthia, and of queenElisabeth I of Bohemia , countess of Luxembourg.Her husband was electedKing of Germany in Frankfurt on29 September 1273 , largely due to the efforts of her cousinFrederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg . Rudolph was crowned inAachen on24 October 1273 . She served as his Queen consort for the following eight years.She died early in 1281. Rudolph remained a widower for three years and proceeded to marry
Isabelle of Burgundy .External links
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWABIAN%20NOBILITY.htm#GertrudAnnaHohenburgMRudolfIAustria A listing of Swabian nobility, including the Dukes of Hohenberg]
* [http://www.worldroots.com/cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I02169@ Her profile at Royalty Pages]
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/habsburg/habsburg2.html A listing of descendants of Rudolph I of Germany] .
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