Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505)

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Elisabeth of Austria
Coronation on March 10, 1454
in the Wawel Cathedral,
Kraków, Poland
Coat of Arms
Parents Albert II of Germany,
Elisabeth II of Bohemia
Consort Casimir IV of Poland
Date of Birth 1436
Place of Birth Vienna, Austria
Date of Death August 30, 1505
Place of Death Kraków, Poland
Place of Burial Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

Elisabeth of Austria (1435/36/possibly 1437 – 30 August 1505), (in Polish Elżbieta Rakuszanka, Hungarian: Erzsébet), was a Polish-Lithuanian queen. In Polish, she is known as Elżbieta Rakuszanka and Elżbieta Austriaczka, both names meaning Elisabeth of Austria, or Elżbieta Habsburżanka, meaning Elisabeth of Habsburg.

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[edit] Biography

Elisabeth was the daughter of Albert II of Germany (1397-1439) and his wife Elisabeth (1409-42), heiress of Bohemia. She was a princess of Hungary, princess of Bohemia, and duchess of Austria. Austria had yet to be raised to an archduchy, although the Habsburgs had already begun styling themselves as archdukes.

She married on 10 March 1454 King Casimir IV of Poland (Kazimierz Jagellon, 1427-92), monarch of Poland and Lithuania. Four of her sons became king, thus she is also called "mother of the Jagiellons" (or "mother of kings").

They had the following children:

After the 1457 childless death of Elisabeth's brother, king Ladislas Posthumous, she and her family started to advance their claims to the thrones of Bohemia and Hungary. Ultimately, her eldest son became elected to both monarchies.

Her younger sons, in turn, became monarchs of Poland and Lithuania.

Upon the death of her brother Ladislas, his remaining heiresses shared the inherited rights in a way which put all their mother's rights to Polish principalities to Elisabeth and her children. Elisabeth's said mother, also named Elisabeth, was the only child of late Emperor Sigismund, himself the eldest son and heir of her mother, yet one Elisabeth, a daughter of ducal Pomeranian dynasty and the ultimate heiress of her mother, Elisabeth of Poland, the eldest daughter of Casimir III of Poland who also had inherited the principality of Kujavia (the elder branch of Masovia-Sandomir) and some rights to successions in parts of Greater Poland and Silesian principalities (Wladyslaw the Short's wife was from Poznan branch and mother from Wroclaw and Legnica branch). Since 1431, no other legitimate descendants of Casimir III survived than Elisabeth of Pomerania's. This was the way some ancient Piast estate property passed to the Jagiellons.

In 1467 she renounced her right to the Duchy of Luxembourg to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, whose father had bought the territory in 1441 from Elisabeth, Duchess of Luxembourg.

[edit] Ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Albert III, Duke of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Albert IV, Duke of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Beatrix of Nuremberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Albert II of Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Johanna of Bavaria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Margaret of Brieg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elisabeth of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elisabeth of Pomerania
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elisabeth II of Bohemia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hermann II of Celje
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barbara of Celje
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna of Schaunberg
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Popular Culture

  • Elizabeth appears in the expansion pack of Legendary Warriors. She is portrayed as a loving wife of Casimir, and a very good strategist. She alo acts motherly towards the three von Baysen siblings. Her diction is extremely educated, similar to Alfonso, who was removed in the expansion pack. She wields a fan.

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Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1505)
Born: 1436 Died: 30 August 1505
Royal titles
Preceded by
Sophia of Halshany		 Queen of Poland
1454-1492		 Succeeded by
Helena of Moscow