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Barbara Celjska, Empress, consort of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, ...

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Personal name headingBarbara Celjska, Empress, consort of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1392-1451
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Variant(s)Barbara of Cilli, Empress, consort of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1392-1451
Barbara of Celje, Empress, consort of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1392-1451
Barbora Celjska, Empress, consort of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1392-1451
Associated countryHungary Germany Czech Republic Poland
Birth date1392
Death date1451-07-11
Place of birthCelje (Slovenia)
Place of deathMělník (Czech Republic)
Profession or occupationQueens
Found inBarbara Celjska, 2010: p. 1 (born 1392, died 1451)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_of_Cilli (Barbara of Cilli (also sometimes known as "Barbara of Celje") was the spouse of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund and as such Holy Roman Empress)
Čierna král̕ovná Barbora Celjská, 2013.
Wikipedia, March 11, 2019 (Barbara of Cilli; born 1392, Celje, County of Cilli (now Slovenia); died 11 July 1451, Mělník, Bohemia, Crown of Bohemia (now Czech Republic); daughter of Herman II, Count of Celje, and Countess Anna of Schaunberg; Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund; spent most of her time on her Hungarian fiefdoms; served as regent of Hungary during Sigismund's absences in 1412, 1414, 1416 and 1418; crowned Queen of Hungary in 1408, Queen of Germany in 1414, Holy Roman Empress in 1433, and Queen of Bohemia in 1437, shortly before her husband's death; their daughter Elisabeth married King Albert II of Germany, an arch-rival; in exile at the Polish royal court 1438-1441, forced to relinquish most of her possessions; spent the rest of her life as Dowager Queen in Bohemia; died of the plague epidemic)