!!!Kottanerin, Helene

b. Sopron, Hungary (then Oedenburg), around 1400, 
d. after 1470, from 1436 lady's maid of Elisabeth, wife and later 
widow of king Albrecht II ( Albrecht V), stole the Hungarian crown 
from Visegrad Castle (Plintenburg) for the coronation of  Ladislaus 
Postumus. The event is described by Gustav Freytag in "Bilder aus der 
deutschen Vergangenheit" ("Pictures from the German Past", part 1, 
%%sup 3/%1861).

!Works
S. Endlicher (ed.), Denkwuerdigkeiten, 1846.

!Literature
K. Holzner, Zum Alltag von Frauen und Maennern in den 
"Denkwuerdigkeiten der H. K." (1439-1440), master's thesis, Vienna 
1994.



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