germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Royal Women of Austria (2/?): Kunigunde of AustriaKunigunde of Austria
germanaustriannoblesandroyals:Royal Women of Austria (2/?): Kunigunde of AustriaKunigunde of Austria (16March 1465 – 6 August 1520) was the only surviving daughter of Holy RomanEmperor Frederick II and his wife Eleanor of Portugal. Her older brotherMaximilian of Austria, who would later marry Mary of Burgundy and becomeEmperor, and her were the only two children to survive into adulthood.Throughout her life, shemaintained a close relationship with her brother who even mediated between herand her father to prevent an Imperial Ban. Kunigunde married Albert IV, Duke ofBavaria, and consumated the marriage without her father’s consent. He initallyhad given it but when Albert besieged Regensburg shortly before the plannedwedding, The Emperor changed his mind. The marriage ultimately took placewithout Kunigunde knowing of her father’s change of mind. In the end, she boreher husband seven children, four girls and three boys.Although Kunigunde hadresigned from the Imperial court, she was political active by trying toinfluence politics in favor of the rights of her younger sons. Furthermore shestayed in close contact with her Emperor brother and other ruling relativesthroughout Europe.After the death of Albertin 1508 she later joined the Convent of Püttrich which she favoured and lived there until her death in 1520. -- source link
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