Matilda of Habsburg [SEP] date of death
Matilda of Habsburg
Matilda of Habsburg or Melchilde (1253 in Rheinfelden – 23 December 1304 in Munich, Bavaria) was the eldest daughter of Rudolph I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenburg. She was regent of Bavaria in the minority of her son.
Marriage.
On 24 October 1273, Matilda married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria, in Aachen, she was his third and final wife. There was a large age difference, Louis was twenty three years older than Matilda.
Matilda and Louis had the following
death unknown), a nun in Marienburg abbey
2. Ludwig (13 September 1267 – 23 November 1290), killed at a tournament at Nuremberg.
Anna's son, Ludwig would have probably become Duke of Bavaria, but died at a tournament and he died before his father. Anna herself died in 1271, she was in her late teens or early twenties, when she died. Her husband married one more time, to Matilda of Habsburg. Matilda bore Louis two surviving sons, their younger son was Louis