Elisabeth of Bohemia was the daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor....

 and Anne of Schweidnitz. She was named after her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330).

She had a brother Wenceslaus, King of the Romans

Wenceslaus, King of the Romans

Wenceslaus ) was, by election, German King from 1376 and, by inheritance, King of Bohemia from 1378. He was the third Bohemian and second German monarch of the Luxembourg dynasty...

 and one half sister Katharine of Bohemia

Katharine of Bohemia

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 whose mother was Blanche of Valois

Blanche of Valois

Blanche of Valois was the youngest daughter of Charles of Valois and his third wife Mahaut of Châtillon.-Family:Her paternal grandparents were Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. Her maternal grandparents were Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol and Marie of Brittany.Marie was a daughter of John...

 who was Charles IV's previous wife. Elisabeth had another half sister who was the daughter of Blanche, Margaret of Bohemia but she died in 1349 so Elisabeth never knew her.

After the death of her mother, Charles remarried for the last time to Elizabeth of Pomerania

Elizabeth of Pomerania

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. Elisabeth gained six half-siblings from the marriage: Anna, Queen of England

Anne of Bohemia

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, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Sigismund of Luxemburg KG was King of Hungary, of Croatia from 1387 to 1437, of Bohemia from 1419, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last Emperor of the House of Luxemburg. He was also King of Italy from 1431, and of Germany from 1411...

, Margaret "the younger" of Bohemia

Margaret of Bohemia (1373-1410)

Margaret of Bohemia was the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his fourth wife Elizabeth of Pomerania. Her siblings included Anne of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.- Biography :...

, John of Görlitz, Charles and Henry.

Elisabeth married when she was only eight in 1366 to Albert III, Duke of Austria

Albert III, Duke of Austria

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. Elisabeth and Albert had no children and she died aged only fifteen in 1373; she was buried with Albert's parents in Gaming Charterhouse

Gaming Charterhouse

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 in Lower Austria.

Her husband remarried to Beatrix of Nuremberg and they were parents of Albert IV, Duke of Austria

Albert IV, Duke of Austria

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