!!!Gertrud, geb.1226

Gertrud, b. 1226, 
d. April  24 (or July 9), 1288, daughter of Heinrich von 
Moedling, niece of   Friedrich II the Bold, Duke of Babenberg. 
Married margrave Vladislav of Moravia (d. Jan. 3, 1247) in 1246, 
then margrave Hermann of Baden (d. Oct. 4, 1250) and Roman, Prince of 
Halitsch in 1252 (through Hungarian mediation). He left G. and the 
country in 1253. Children from her 2nd marriage were Friedrich (of 
Austria) who was executed in 1268 and Agnes, married to 
Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, and Ulrich von Heunburg; only one 
child from her 3rd marriage, Maria, who married Joachim Guthkeled. 
Refusal of 19-year old G. to marry the 55-year old Emperor Friedrich 
II prevented the elevation of Austria into a royal empire in 1245. G. 
obtained political significance after her uncle's death, was first 
favoured by the pope and later by King Bela IV of Hungary, but 
attacked by  Otakar of Bohemia. Her seat was Kahlenbergerdorf castle 
near Vienna, then Voitsberg (Styria). In 1269 G. was exiled by Otakar 
and moved to Meissen to the Saint Clara monastery Seusslitz, of which 
she became the first abbess.

!Literature
H. Meier, G., Herzogin von Oesterreich und Steiermark, 
Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins der Steiermark 23, 1927.



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