Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) proprietary titles, b) parents/pedigree, c) patrimony and properties, d) persona or personality, e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) progeny or posterity.
KATHARINA VON AUSTRIA
Parents/Pedigree
Partner/Progeny: Married Enguerrand VI (d.1346), Lord of Coucy, 1335-1346; Lord of Guines and Lord of Oisy (in Marle), and Lord of La Fere, with whom she had, Enguerand VII de Coucy.
Notes: "...Enguerrand de Coucy (was) a French nobleman who had inherited, through his mother, a grand-daughter of the emperor Albert, several towns and castles in Alsace and Aargau, of which, however, he had never obtained possession. Leopold of Austria, Enguerrand's cousin, refused to deliver up to his his mother's portion, and Enguerrand, who had married Isabella, princess of England, availing himself of the peace between the country and France, came with a large army of adventurers, chiefly Englaish, to regain his inheritance by force of arms...." (Vieusseux, p. 61)
Katharina von Saffenberg
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Neuenahr
KUNIGUNDE VON DALE (d.1350)
Proprietary Titles: Heiress of Dale-Diepenheim
Notes: "KUNIGUNDE van Dale . Heiress of Dale and Diepenheim. Kunigunde and her second husband sold the county of Dale and the lordship of Diepenheim in 1330/31 to Jan van Diest Bishop of Utrecht. m firstly (1316) OTTO [V] Graf von Tecklenburg, son of OTTO [IV] Graf von Tecklenburg & his wife Beatrix von Rietberg (1301-4 May 1328). He succeeded as Graaf van Dale, by right of his wife. m secondly (before 18 Mar 1329) WILLEM van Cuyck Heer zu Boxtel (-1350)." (Lower Rhein Nobility)
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