Who married Rudolf Hesso, Margrave of Baden-Baden?
Joanna of Burgundy married Rudolf Hesso, Margrave of Baden-Baden .
Rudolf Hesso, Margrave of Baden-Baden
Rudolf Hesso of Baden-Baden (c. 1290 – 17 August 1335) was a son of Hesso, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife, Adelaide of Rieneck. He succeeded his father as Margrave of Baden-Baden in 1297, and ruled jointly with his uncle, Rudolf III. From 1332 to 1335, he ruled alone.
He married Joanna of Burgundy, Lady of Héricourt, a daughter of Reginald of Burgundy and widow of Count Ulrich II of Pfirt.
Rudolf Hesso and Joanna had two daughters:
- Margareta (d. 1367), married Frederick III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1353)
- Adelheid (d. after 1399), married in 1345 Rudolf V, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim (d. 1361) and secondly Walram IV, Count of Tierstein (d. 1386).
Rudolph Hesso died in 1335. As he had no male heirs, Baden-Baden was inherited after his death by his cousin, Rudolf IV, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim.
Joanna of Burgundy
Joanna of Burgundy (died 1349) was a daughter of Reginald of Burgundy and his wife, Guillemette of Neufchâtel.
She married three times:
- With Ulrich III of Pfirt (d. 1324). They had two daughters:
- Joanna (1300–1351), married Albert II, Duke of Austria
- Ursula, married Hugo of Hohenberg
- With Rudolf Hesso of Baden-Baden (d. 1335), she had two more daughters:
- Margaret (d. 1367), married her second cousin Frederick III of Baden-Baden (d. 1353)
- Adelaide (died after 1399), married her second cousin Margrave Rudolf V of Baden-Pforzheim (brother of Frederick III; died in 1631) and later Count Walram IV of Tierstein (d. 1386)
- With William of Katzenelnbogen; this marriage remained childless.
When her brother Othenin, Count of Montbéliard died childless in 1339, she and her second husband Rudolf Hesso inherited the Lordships of Belfort and Héricourt.
After the death of her third husband, she divided her possessions amongst her four daughters. Margaret received Héricourt; Adelaide and Ursula shared Belfort.
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