Constance of Austria, Margravine of Meissen
Constance of Babenberg | |
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Theodora Angelina |
Constance of Babenberg (
Life
Constance was a younger daughter of Duke
On 1 May 1234 Constance married the Wettings margrave Henry the Illustrious. The wedding took place in an open field near Vienna rather than in the newly erected Hofburg residence of the Babenberg's. It is believed that the conversion of the castle had not been completed, or perhaps it was too small. There are three sources for information about the wedding itself. Two of them report that the wedding happened in campo inuxta Stadelowe, in other words, in Stadlau. The third source reports that the wedding took place in aput Ringlense, a name which has fallen into disuse and was used instead of today's Floridsdorf.
The two sources reporting the location as Stadlau also published a list of wedding guests. Present at the wedding were King
Constance bequeathed a
After Constance's death in 1243, Margrave Henry secondly married Agnes of Bohemia, a daughter of King Wenceslaus I. When Constance's brother Duke Frederick was killed in the 1246 Battle of the Leitha River, he claimed the Austrian duchy for himself; nevertheless, it was seized by Emperor Frederick II.
Issue
Henry and Constance had two sons:
- Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240 – 20 November 1314)
- Theodoric of Landsberg (1242 – 8 February 1285).
In 1910, a street in Donaustadt (the 22nd district of Vienna), was named after her: Konstanziagasse.