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Kunigunde Of Bilstein
Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde, is a European female name of German origin derived from "kuni" (clan, family) and "gund" (war). In Polish this is sometimes Kunegunda or Kinga. People with such names include: *Kunigunde of Rapperswil (c. early 4th century), Christian saint * Cunigunda of Laon, wife of Bernard of Italy (797–818) * Cunigunde of Swabia (died 918), wife and consort of King Conrad I of East Francia * Holy Roman Empress St. Cunigunde (of Luxembourg) (c. 975 – 1040), wife and consort of Holy Roman Emperor St. Henry II * Queen Kunigunde (of Hohenstaufen) (1200? – 13 September 1248), wife and consort of Wenceslaus I of Bohemia * Queen Kunigunda (of Slavonia) (died 1285), consort of Bohemia and its regent from 1278 to 1285 *St. Kinga of Poland (1234–1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania *Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Wladyslaw I the Elbow-High of Poland *Cunigunde of Poland (died 1357), wife of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinga (other)
Kinga is a female name, a variant of Kunigunde. It may refer to: People * Kinga of Poland, Hungarian saint Surname * Sonam Kinga, Bhutanese actor * Yukari Kinga, Japanese footballer Given name * Kinga Achruk, Polish handball player * Kinga Augustyn, Polish violinist * Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer * Kinga Bóta, Hungarian sprint canoer * Kinga Choszcz, Polish travel writer * Kinga Czuczor, Hungarian beauty pageant contestant * Kinga Czigány, Hungarian sprint canoer * Kinga Dékány, Hungarian sprint canoer * Kinga Dunin, Polish writer * Kinga Fabó, Hungarian poet * Kinga Gajewska (born 1990), Polish politician * Kinga Gál, Hungarian politician * Kinga Göncz, Hungarian politician * Kinga Grzyb, Polish handball player * Kinga Janurik, Hungarian handballer * Kinga Klivinyi, Hungarian handballer * Kinga Maculewicz-De La Fuente, French volleyball player * Kinga Philipps, Polish actress * Kinga Preis, Polish actress * Kinga Rusin, Polish TV presenter * Kinga Tshering, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunigunde Of Poland
Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde, is a European female name of German origin derived from "kuni" (clan, family) and "gund" (war). In Polish this is sometimes Kunegunda or Kinga. People with such names include: *Kunigunde of Rapperswil (c. early 4th century), Christian saint *Cunigunda of Laon, wife of Bernard of Italy (797–818) *Cunigunde of Swabia (died 918), wife and consort of King Conrad I of East Francia Conrad I (; c. 881 – 23 December 918), called the Younger, was the king of East Francia from 911 to 918. He was the first king not of the Carolingian dynasty, the first to be elected by the nobility and the first to be anointed. He was chosen as ... *Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Empress St. Cunigunde (of Luxembourg) (c. 975 – 1040), wife and consort of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor St. Henry II *Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen, Queen Kunigunde (of Hohenstaufen) (1200? – 13 September 1248), wife and consort of Wenceslaus I of Bohemia *Kunigunda of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunegunda Godawska-Olchawa
Kunegunda Weronika Godawska-Olchawa (born July 27, 1951 in Nowy Sącz) is a Polish retired slalom canoeist who competed in the early 1970s. She finished fifth in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu .... ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1951 births Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists of Poland Polish female canoeists Sportspeople from Nowy Sącz {{Poland-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 – 16 October 1946) was a member of the Nazi Party, the ''Gauleiter'' (regional leader) of Franconia and a member of the '' Reichstag'', the national legislature. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper ''Der Stürmer'', which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. The publishing firm was financially very successful and made Streicher a multi-millionaire. After the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity at the end of the Nuremberg trials. Specifically, he was found to have continued his vitriolic antisemitic propaganda when he was well aware that Jews were being murdered. For this, he was executed by hanging. Streicher was the first member of the Nazi regime held accountable for inciting genocide by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Early life Streicher was born in Fleinhausen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, one of nine children of the teacher Friedrich Streicher and his wife Anna (''né ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska
Theresa Kunegunda ( pl, Teresa Kunegunda Sobieska, german: Kurfürstin Therese Kunigunde) (4 March 1676 – 10 March 1730) was a Polish princess, Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate. By birth she was member of the House of Sobieski and by marriage member of the House of Wittelsbach. She also served as Regent of the Palatinate in 1704–05. Biography She was a daughter of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania John III Sobieski and his wife, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien. While her parents had thirteen children she was the only daughter to survive childhood. Theresa was baptized in Jaworow on 19 July 1676, having for her godfather Charles II, king of England and for her godmother Marie-Thérèse of Austria, wife of Louis XIV. Theresa was educated in painting and music, Latin, Italian and French. At the beginning of 1692, her father planned to marry her to the Prince of Denmark, but this project was subsequently abandoned. Weddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert IV, Duke Of Bavaria
Albert IV (15 December 1447 – 18 March 1508; german: Albrecht) was duke of Bavaria-Munich from 1467, and duke of the reunited Bavaria from 1503. Biography Albert was a son of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria and Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck. He was born in Munich. After the death of his older brother John IV, Duke of Bavaria he gave up his spiritual career and returned from Pavia to Munich. When his brothers Christoph and Wolfgang had resigned Albert became sole duke, but a new duchy Bavaria- Dachau was created from Bavaria-Munich for his brother Duke Sigismund in 1467. After Sigismund's death in 1501, it reverted to Bavaria-Munich. The marriage of Kunigunde of Austria to Albert IV, was a result of intrigues and deception, but must be counted as a defeat for Emperor Frederick III. Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde (who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry. The Emperor ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunigunde Of Austria
Kunigunde of Austria (16 March 1465 – 6 August 1520), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duchess of Bavaria from 1487 to 1508, by her marriage to the Wittelsbach duke Albert IV. Biography Early life Kunigunde was born in Wiener Neustadt, the fourth of five children to Emperor Frederick III and his wife Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal. However, only she and her elder brother Maximilian survived to adulthood. Frederick blamed her mother for the deaths of her older siblings, saying that she had fed them too much Portuguese sweet food. When Kunigunde fell ill, Frederick rushed into the women's quarter, took the baby from the cradle and moved her to his own bedchamber, removing her from the mother's supposed harmful care. Eleanor quickly fell ill herself. It is unknown whether mother and child ever saw each other again before her death. She was raised in Wiener Neustadt and at the Inner Austrian court in Graz, Styria, where she grew up in an informal and open atmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487. He was the son of John Hunyadi, Regent of Hungary, who died in 1456. In 1457, Matthias was imprisoned along with his older brother, Ladislaus Hunyadi, on the orders of King Ladislaus the Posthumous. Ladislaus Hunyadi was executed, causing a rebellion that forced King Ladislaus to flee Hungary. After the King died unexpectedly, Matthias's uncle Michael Szilágyi persuaded the Estates to unanimously proclaim the 14-year-old Matthias as king on 24 January 1458. He began his rule under his uncle's guardianship, but he took effective control of government within two weeks. As king, Matthias waged wars against the Czech mercenaries who domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Of Poděbrady
Catherine of Poděbrady (11 November 1449 – 8 March 1464) was Queen of Hungary as the second wife of King Matthias Corvinus. Biography Catherine and her twin sister Sidonie were born at Poděbrady, to the Bohemian king George of Poděbrady and his first wife, Kunigunde of Šternberk. Kunigunde died from complications of the birth. George of Poděbrady eventually remarried; his second wife, Joanna of Rožmitál, bore George more children, including Ludmila of Poděbrady. Matthias Corvinus had lost his wife, Elisabeth of Cilli, at a young age. On 1 May 1461 he married Catherine at Matthias Church in Buda. Matthias was eighteen, his bride thirteen. The wedding negotiations had begun in 1458 when Catherine was nine years old. Soon after the marriage, Catherine left her family and went to live in Hungary with her new husband. Janus Pannonius helped teach Catherine Latin. Translation from Czech Wikipedia The queen died in childbirth at the age of 14. Her child died as well. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Of Poděbrady
George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad ( cs, Jiří z Poděbrad; german: Georg von Podiebrad), was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, however, moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. His rule was marked by great efforts to preserve peace and tolerance between the Hussites and Catholics in the religiously divided Crown of Bohemia – hence his contemporary nicknames: "King of two peoples" and "Friend of peace". During the 19th century, in period of the so-called Czech National Revival, he began to be praised (even somewhat idealized) as the last Czech national monarch (in terms of ethnic awareness), a great diplomat and a courageous fighter against the domination of the Catholic Church. In modern times he is remembered mainly for his idea and attempt to establish common European Christian institutions, which is now seen as the first historical vision of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunigunde Of Sternberg
Kunigunde of Sternberg ( cs, 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 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 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 Zdenka or Zdeňka () is a feminine given name in Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, and Slovenian, originally a short form of Zdeslava. Notable people with the name include: * Zdenka Badovinac, Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunigunde Von Orlamünde
Kunigunde, Countess of Weimar-Orlamünde (1303 – 29 April 1382) was a German noblewoman and nun. After the death of her husband, she served as the Abbess of the Convent of the Celestial Throne in Nuremberg. In German folklore she has been associated with the Weiße Frauen of Hohenzollern. Biography Kunigunde von Orlamünde was born in 1303. She was the first child of Ulrich I, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg. In 1321 she married Otto VI, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde. Their marriage produced no children. She and her husband adopted a daughter, Podika von Schaumnerg, who married Poske Ritter von Schweritz in 1341. Kinigunde's husband died in 1340, leaving her with a vast inheritance. She used her inheritance to fund the Convent of the Celestial Throne, a Cistercian monastery in Nuremberg, where she later entered into service as the abbess. According to legends, she was the founder of the convent, although the in reality it was founded half a century earlier. In 1342 she did give an en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
