Elisabeth II of Bohemia

:For other people with the same name, see Elisabeth of Bohemia (disambiguation)

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Empress and Queen Elisabeth (b 1409 (before 27 November), d 25 Dec 1442) was the only daughter of Emperor Sigismund, king of Bohemia and Hungary, the last Luxemburg on the Imperial Throne. In 1422, she married Archduke Albrecht of Austria, who then after her father became Emperor Albert II and King of Bohemia and Hungary. She was thus Holy Roman Empress, and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary.

Related Topics:
Emperor Sigismund - Archduke - Albrecht - Holy Roman Empress - Bohemia - Hungary

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Elisabeth was not the daughter of Sigismund's first wife Mary of Hungary, and thus not descended from Angevin kings of Hungary (but in many ways, she descended from the old Arpád kings of Hungary.)

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Mary of Hungary - Angevin kings of Hungary - Arpád kings

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Elisabeth was daughter of Emperor Sigismund and his second wife, the Slovenian noblewoman Barbara of Celje. Her paternal grandparents were Emperor Charles IV and Elisabeth of Pomerania. Her maternal grandfather was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary). In right of the paternal grandparents, she was, through Emperor Charles, a heiress of Bohemia, and through Elisabeth of Pomerania, a heiress of Poland, of its Kujavian Piast branch of kings. Thus, she was a leading claimant to several Slavic kingdoms and principalities.

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Barbara of Celje - Emperor Charles IV - Bosnia - Nemanjic - Serbia - Stephen V of Hungary - Poland - Kujavia - Piast - Slavic

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She was also a descendant of Arpads of Hungary, through her great-grandmother Elisabeth I of Bohemia, who herself was granddaughter of Kunguta Rostislavna of Halicia, whose mother Anna was a daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary. Admittedly, this was not a very close Hungarian connection, but all the other extant descendants of Arpads were approximately as distant at that time.

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Arpads - Elisabeth I of Bohemia - Bela IV of Hungary

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Additionally, she descended from Ottokar I of Bohemia's second wife Constance of Hungary, daughter of Bela III of Hungary.

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Ottokar I of Bohemia - Bela III of Hungary

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She died two years after her husband, leaving her children minors. Her mother Barbara survived her.

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Her only son Ladislas V the Posthumous of Austria, king of Bohemia and Hungary, b 1440, died teenager without issue, leaving the remaining kingdoms of the family to be succeeded by elected rulers. Her daughters Anna, Duchess of Thuringia (b 1432) and Elisabeth, Queen of Poland (b 1437) continued the family (see http://genealogics.org/descend.php?personID=I00005066&tree=LEO), which afterwards regained some of these kingdoms.

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Ladislas V - Anna, Duchess of Thuringia - Elisabeth, Queen of Poland

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