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- Title
Katharina von Österreich (1295-1323), Tochter König Albrechts I., Ehefrau Prinz Karls von Kalabrien.
- Authors
Maleczek, Werner
- Abstract
As a young girl, Katharina – youngest child of Roman King Albert I (from 1298–1308) – was already subject to the Habsburgs’ dynastic marriage arrangements. Marriages were planned first to the son of John II, Duke of Brabant, and then to the widowed Emperor Henry VII, but neither actually took place. Her union with Charles of Calabria, son and heir presumptive of King Robert of Sicily, did go ahead – perhaps in order to give King Frederick the Fair an advantage over Louis of Bavaria, his opponent in the Wittelsbach double election of 1314. Only the events surrounding the wedding in 1316 have been chronicled. Little is known of Katharina’s life at the court in Naples in the few years until she died, childless, on 18th January 1323. The Memoria of the Habsburg princess, to which a large part of this research is devoted, starts with her grave in San Lorenzo, Naples – frequently studied in art history – and can be easily traced through late medieval Austrian chronicles and the pedigrees from the time of Emperor Maximilian.
- Subjects
ITALY; PRINCESSES; HABSBURG, House of; CHARLES, Duke of Calabria, 1298-1328; MARRIAGES of royalty &; nobility; SEPULCHRAL monuments; HISTORY
- Publication
Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 2012, Vol 92, p33
- ISSN
0079-9068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/qfiab.2012.92.1.33