Hedwig of Habsburg

Hedwig of Habsburg (d. 1285/86) was a daughter of Rudolph I of Germany and his first wife, Gertrude of Hohenburg. Hedwig was a member of the House of Habsburg. It is unknown when Hedwig was born, but it was probably between 1258 and 1261 from the evidence of the births of her two closest siblings.

Family

The Habsburg family did not play much of a role in history until the time of Hedwig's father, Rudolph, when they became more powerful as the ruling family of Germany.

Hedwig was the seventh of nine children borne to her father's wife Gertrude. Hedwig's brothers became powerful monarchs in Europe, while Hedwig and her sister married powerful monarchs. Hedwig's surviving brothers were Albert I of Germany and Rudolph II, Duke of Austria. Hedwig and all of her sisters lived to adulthood: Matilda, Duchess of Bavaria, Katharina, Agnes, Electress of Saxony, Klementia, Queen of Hungary, and Judith, Queen of Bohemia.

When Gertrude died 1281, Rudolph remarried to Isabelle of Burgundy. Isabelle was younger than Hedwig and her siblings, apart from Judith.

Marriage

Rudolph wished to make peace with Bohemia, and to do this he needed to marry at least one of his daughters into the royal family of Bohemia. Judith married Wenceslaus, son of Ottokar II of Bohemia, and Hedwig married Otto VI, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel. They were married in 1279 in Vienna.

The couple may have had a child who died young. Hedwig died in 1285 or 1286.

German nobility
Vacant Title last held by Matilda of Denmark	Margravine of Brandenburg-Salzwedel 1279–1285 or 1286	Vacant Title next held by Anne of Austria

Ancestry

Family of Hedwig of Habsburg

16. Albert III, Count of Habsburg               8. Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg                       17. Ida von Pfullendorf               4. Albert IV, Count of Habsburg                             18. Gottfried von Staufen               9. Agnes of Staufen                       2. Rudolph I of Germany                                   20. Hartmann III, Count of Kiburg and Dillingen               10. Ulrich, Count of Kiburg and Dillingen                       21. Richenza von Lenzburg               5. Heilwig of Kiburg                             22. Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen               11. Anna von Zähringen                       23. Heilwig of Frohburg               1. Hedwig of Habsburg                                         24. Burckhard III, Count of Hohenburg               12. Burckhard IV, Count of Hohenburg                       6. Burckhard V, Count of Hohenburg                             3. Gertrude of Hohenburg                                   28. Rudolph I, Count Palatine of Tübingen               14. Rudolph II, Count Palatine of Tübingen                       29. Mechtild of Gleiberg, Countess of Giessen               7. Mechtild of Tübingen                             30. Henry, Margrave of Ronsberg               15. unnamed                       31. Udilhild of Gammertingen