Agnes of Habsburg was a daughter of Emperor Rudolph I of Germany

Rudolph I of Germany

Rudolph I was King of the Romans from 1273 until his death. He played a vital role in raising the Habsburg dynasty to a leading position among the Imperial feudal dynasties...

 and his first wife Countess Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg.

Marriage

In 1273 she was married to Elector Albert II

Albert II, Duke of Saxony

Albert II of Saxony was a son of Duke Albert I of Saxony and his third wife Helen of Brunswick and Lunenburg, a daughter of Otto the Child. He supported Rudolph I of Germany at his election as Roman king and became his son-in-law...

 of Saxony

Duchy of Saxony

The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...

. They had six children:

1. Duke Rudolf I of Saxe-Wittenberg (died 11 March 1356) he was an Elector of Saxony
2. Otto (died after 29 August 1311)
3. Albrecht (died 19 May 1342), Bishop of Passau
   Bishop of Passau
   The Diocese of Passau is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in Germany. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of München und Freising. The diocese covers an area of 5,442 km². The current bishop is Wilhelm Schraml.-History:...
   
    in 1322-1342
4. Wenzel (died 17 March 1327), a canon in Halberstadt
   Halberstadt
   Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. It is located on the German Half-Timbered House Road and the Magdeburg–Thale railway....
   
   
5. Anna (died 22 November 1327), married:
   1. on 8 August 1308 to Margrave Friedrich der Lahme, son of Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen
      Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen
      Frederick I, called the Brave or the Bitten was margrave of Meissen and landgrave of Thuringia.-Life:...
      
      ;
   2. on 6 Jule 1315 Duke Henry II of Mecklenburg
      Henry II of Mecklenburg
      Henry II, Duke of Mecklenburg, nicknamed the Lion was regent of Mecklenburg from 1287 to 1298, co-regent from 1298 to 1302 and alone again from 1302 to 1329.- Life :...
      
      
6. Elisabeth (died 1341)

Family

She was the sixth of nine children born to Rudolph and Gertrude; like Agnes, most of her siblings lived to adulthood. Among her siblings were: Albert I of Germany

Albert I of Germany

Albert I of Habsburg was King of the Romans and Duke of Austria, the eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenburg.-Life:...

; who succeeded their father, Rudolph II, Duke of Austria; who was also Duke of Swabia

Swabia

Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.-Geography:Like many cultural regions of Europe, Swabia's borders are not clearly defined...

, Matilda

Matilda of Habsburg

Matilda of Habsburg or Melchilde was the eldest daughter of Rudolph I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenburg...

; she was married to Louis II, Duke of Bavaria

Louis II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke Louis II of Bavaria was Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. Born in Heidelberg, he was a son of duke Otto II and Agnes of the Palatinate...

, Guta

Judith of Habsburg

Judith of Habsburg was the youngest daughter of Rudolph I of Germany and his wife Gertrude of Hohenburg. Judith was a member of the Habsburg family.-Biography:When Judith was five, she became the object of her father's political plans...

; she was married to Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and was mother of Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330) and Anne of Bohemia (1290–1313), Katharina

Katharine of Habsburg

Katharine of Habsburg was the daughter of Rudolph I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenburg.- Life :She was born in Rheinfelden and was the fifth of nine children....

; married to Otto III, Duke of Bavaria

Otto III, Duke of Bavaria

Otto III of Bavaria , member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 to 1312 and disputably King of Hungary and Croatia between 1305 and 1307 as Béla V.-Family:...

 and Klementia

Klementia of Habsburg

Clementia of Habsburg was a daughter of Rudolf I of Habsburg and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg.-Family:...

; she was married to Charles Martel of Anjou

Charles Martel of Anjou

Charles Martel of the Angevin dynasty, also known as Charles I Martel, was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary....

 and was mother of Charles I of Hungary

Charles I of Hungary

Charles I , also known as Charles Robert , was the first King of Hungary and Croatia of the House of Anjou. He was also descended from the old Hungarian Árpád dynasty. His claim to the throne of Hungary was contested by several pretenders...

 and Clementia, Queen of France.

Ancestry

External links

• Article in the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaisertums Österreich

• *A listing of descendants of Rudolph I of Germany.