Mechtild (Habsburg) von Habsburg (abt. 1253 - 1304)

Born about 1253 in Rheinfelden

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Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1304 at about age 51 in München, Bayern

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Mathilde Habsburg was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Mechtild (Mathilde or Matilda) von Habsburg, was born in about 1253 at Rheinfelden, the eldest daughter and probably the eldest child of Rudolf IV, Graf von Habsburg, Landgraf von Thurgau, and his first wife, Gertrud von Hohenberg.^[1]

Her marriage was arranged to secure her father's election as King of Germany, as Rudolf I and she also had a dowry of 10,000 marks. She was married at Aachen on 24 October 1273 (the same day her father was crowned as King) to Ludwig II 'der Strenge' von Wittlesbach, Herzog von OberBayern (Duke of Upper Bavaria) and Pfalzgraf bei Rhein (Count Palatine of the Rhine),as his third wife.^[2]

They had five children:^[3]

1. Rudolf, born 4 October 1274, succeeded his father in Bavaria and the Palatinate;
2. Mechtild, born in late 1275 possibly at München;
3. Agnes, born about 1276-1278, possibly at München;
4. Anna, born about 1280, a nun in Minoritinen-Kloster in Ulm;
5. Ludwig IV, born in about February - March 1282^[4] or perhaps 1 April 1282^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Cawley - Austria; Schwennicke, tafel 41
2. ↑ Cawley - Austria
3. ↑ Cawley - Bavaria; Häutle, p. 6-7; Schwennicke, tafel 91
4. ↑ Cawley - Bavaria; Schwennicke, tafel 91
5. ↑ Häutle, p. 7

• Cawley, Charles, 'Austria: Chapter 4. Dukes of Austria 1276-1493 (Habsburg)' version 3.1 updated 07 March 2015, in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, (http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/AUSTRIA.htm#_Toc412794713 : viewed 21 June 2015).

• Cawley, Charles, 'Bavaria, Dukes: Chapter 11 A - Dukes of Bavaria 1180-1294' version 3.2 updated 30 March 2015, in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families, (http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIA.htm#_Toc412791646 : viewed 21 June 2015)

• Häutle, Christian, Genealogie des erlauchten stammhauses Wittelsbach, München: Herman Manz'sche, 1870. Digitised by Google Books.

• Schwennicke, Detlev, Europäische Stammtafeln, Neue folge, Band I.1, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998.

Marriage

On the 24 October 1273, Matilda married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria in Aachen, she was his third and final wife. There was a large age difference, Louis was twenty three years older than Matilda.

Widowhood and Regency

On her husband's death in 1294, Matilda acted as regent for her young son Rudolf. A decision was made for Matilda to take part of the duchy and her son to take the other part. Matilda took a large part of Upper Bavaria while her son took the cities such as: Ingolstadt, Neuberg, Langenfeld and Rietberg. Within a couple of years her son came of age and ruled the kingdom by himself.

Though Matilda had her younger son, Louis partly educated in Vienna and became co-regent of his brother Rudolf I in Upper Bavaria in 1301 with the support of Matilda and her brother King Albert I, he quarrelled with the Habsburgs from 1307 over possessions in Lower Bavaria. A civil war against his brother Rudolf due to new disputes on the partition of their lands was ended in 1313, when peace was made at Munich.

Matilda and Rudolf continued to be at odds and in 1302 Matilda was arrested by Rudolf and brought to München, where she signed an agreement promising never to interfere in the government again, but as soon as she was outside the boarders of Bavaria, Matilda declared the agreement null and void, and got the support of her brother, Albert, Louis the Bavarian and others.

Matilda's son, Louis defeated his Habsburg cousin Frederick the Handsome. Originally, he was a friend of Frederick, with whom he had been raised. However, armed conflict arose when the tutelage over the young Dukes of Lower Bavaria (Henry XIV, Otto IV and Henry XV) was entrusted to Frederick. On November 9, 1313, Frederick was beaten by Louis in the Battle of Gamelsdorf and had to renounce the tutelage.

Matilda died on 23 December 1304 at Munich, Bavaria.

from Wikipedia: Matilda of Habsburg, accessed 17 jul 2014

Mathilde von Habsburg         Herzogin von Bayern
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um 1253-23.12.1304
Rheinfelden München
Begraben: Fürstenfeld

Älteste Tochter des Königs RUDOLF I. von Habsburg und der Gertrud Anna von Hohenberg, Tochter von Graf Burchard III.

...

24.10.1273
    oo 3. Ludwig II. der Strenge Herzog von Bayern
          13.4.1229-2.2.1294

Kinder:

Rudolf I.

4.10.1274-12.8.1319

Mechthild

Ende 1275-28.3.1319

München Lüneburg

28.10.1288
    oo Otto II. Herzog von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
      1266-9.4.1330

Agnes

um 1276/77-22.7.1345

München Sangershausen

15.1.1290

1. oo Heinrich Landgraf von Hessen

        um 1264-23.8.1298

1303

2. oo Heinrich Markgraf von Brandenburg-Landsberg

        21.3.1256-10.7./14.8.1319

Anna Nonne

um 1280- ?

LUDWIG IV. König des Deutschen Reiches

1.4.1282-11.10.1347

from Mittelalter: Mathilde von Habsburg, accessed 17 jul 2014