Kunigunde of Sternberg
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Born | 18 November 1425 Konopiště |
Died | 19 November 1449 Poděbrady | (aged 24)
Spouse | George of Poděbrady |
Issue | Boček IV of Poděbrady Victor, Duke of Münsterberg Barbara, Duchess of Lipé Henry the Elder Catherine of Poděbrady, Queen of Hungary Sidonie of Poděbrady |
Father | Smil of Sternberg |
Mother | Barbara of Pardubice |
Kunigunde of Sternberg (Czech: Kunhuta ze Šternberka; 18 November 1425, Konopiště – 19 November 1449, Poděbrady) was the first wife of George of Poděbrady, who later became King of Bohemia.
Life
[edit]Kunigunde's parents were the Bohemian nobles Smil of Sternberg (d. 1431) and Barbara of Pardubice (d. 1433). In 1441 she married the 21-year-old George of Poděbrady, who had been captain of the old Bohemian circle of Stará Boleslav[1] since 1440. This marriage produced three sons:
- Boček (1442–1496)
- Victor (1443–1500) and
- Henry the Elder (1448–1498)
and three daughters:
- Barbara (1446–1474), married first with Henry of Lipé (Jindřich z Lipé, d. 1469), and second with Jan Křinecký of Ronov
- Catherine (1449–1464), married Matthias, King of Hungary; and
- Zdenka (1449–1510) (also known as Sidonie of Poděbrady; Catherine's twin)
In 1444 Kunigunde founded a hospital in Poděbrady. It was named after her and remained in operation until the beginning of the 20th century. She also established a foundation for youth education, school construction and rehabilitation of prisoners.
She died in 1449, the day after her twenty-fourth birthday and 9 days after giving birth to twin daughters. She was buried in the parish church Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Poděbrady.
External links
[edit]- Marek, Miroslav. "genealogy Sternberg". Genealogy.EU.
- Marek, Miroslav. "genealogy Podiebrad". Genealogy.EU. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Adolf Bachmann (1878), "George of Poděbrady", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 8, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 602–610