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Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg

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Margaret of Bohemia (29 September 1373 – 4 June 1410) was the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his fourth wife Elizabeth of Pomerania. She became Burgravine of Nuremburg through marriage.

Biography

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Margaret was born in 1373. Her father was Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, eldest son of John of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg and Elizabeth of Bohemia who was the daughter of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Judith of Habsburg.[1] Her mother was Elizabeth of Pomerania, daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania and Elisabeth of Poland who was the daughter of King Casimir III of Poland.[2]

Her full siblings included Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, and John of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia, among others.[3] Her half-siblings from her fathers three earlier marriages included Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary, and Sigismund of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor, among others.

In 1381, she married John III, Burgrave of Nuremberg,[4] who she had been betrothed to since infancy.[5]

The marriage only produced one child:

Margaret died in 1410, aged thirty-six, and her husband died ten years later in 1420; he did not remarry after Margaret's premature death. She was praised during her lifetime by German chroniclers.[6]

Her daughter Elizabeth gave birth to a granddaughter, also called Elizabeth. The younger Elizabeth was engaged to Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, but instead married John III of Werdenberg.

Margaret of Bohemia, Burgravine of Nuremberg
Born: 19 September 1373 Died: 4 June 1410
German nobility
Vacant
Title last held by
Elisabeth of Meissen 		Burgravine of Nuremberg
1397 – 4 June 1410 		Succeeded by
New title
Division of inheritance
from Frederick V
 Margravine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
21 January 1398 – 4 June 1410 		Vacant
Title next held by
Elisabeth of Bavaria

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Boehm, Barbara Drake; Fajt, Jiri, eds. (2005). Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-1-58839-161-2.
  2. ^ Frost, Robert (2015-06-01). The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania: Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208693.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-174634-5.
  3. ^ Weir, Alison (2022-11-03). Queens of the Age of Chivalry. Random House. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4735-2333-3.
  4. ^ Brown, Peter; Čermák, Jan (2023). England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer. Boydell & Brewer. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-84384-579-9.
  5. ^ Historische Commission bei der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften (1881), "Johann III., Burggraf von Nürnberg", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 14, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1. ed.), München/Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 275, retrieved 2024-11-24
  6. ^ Higgins, Sophia Elizabeth (1885). Women of Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Hurst and Blackett. p. 23.
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