Individual Details
Guta (Jutta) von Habsburg
(13 Mar 1271 - 18 Jun 1297)
Guta was born in 1271, the youngest daughter of Rudolf I von Habsburg, emperor-elect, and his first wife Gertrud von Hohenberg. When she was five she became the object of her father's political plans. Her father signed the Vienna peace treaty with Przemysl Ottokar II, king of Bohemia, and they decided that Guta should marry Wenceslas, son and heir of Przemysl Ottokar by his wife Kunhata of Slavonia and Machva.
Guta's sisters also married powerful kings and dukes; her sister Klementia married Charles I Martel of Anjou, king of Hungary, and her sister Mathilde married Ludwig II 'der Strenge', Herzog von Bayern.
Guta's formal betrothal was in 1279 in Jihlava (Iglau), and the wedding took place in early 1285 in Cheb (Eger). The bride was given a dowry 'from the duchy of Austria, the Moravian border to the bank of the Danube'. Following the wedding in Cheb, Rudolf took Guta back to Germany, as she was still young.
Wenceslas' coronation had to be cancelled because Guta was not present. She did eventually leave her family in Germany and came to Prague to be with her husband. Like her father, Guta hated Zawiss, Burggraf von Falkenstein und Rosenberg, her husband's step-father. He had acted as regent with the dowager queen, Kunhata of Slavonia and Machva, whom he had secretly married. Guta helped bring Zawiss to trial and he was eventually executed in 1290, five years after the death of Queen Kunhata.
Guta attempted to reconcile her husband and her brother Albrecht I, the emperor-elect, and she supported her husband's claim on Poland. She brought German influences to the Prague court, like the introduction of a knighthood, and she made Prague a cultural centre.
Wenceslas and Guta were crowned King and Queen of Bohemia in 1297. Guta was not in good health at the time of the coronation, having just given birth to her tenth child and namesake, Guta. She died weeks later in Prague, on 21 May 1297. Only four of her children lived to adulthood, and they died quite young: Wenceslas III died aged 16, Anna was 22, Elisabeth 38 and Margarete 26. Only Elisabeth and Margarete would have progeny.
Her husband went on to marry Ryksa Elzbieta of Poland, who bore him a daughter Agnes; she did not have progeny.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Guta's sisters also married powerful kings and dukes; her sister Klementia married Charles I Martel of Anjou, king of Hungary, and her sister Mathilde married Ludwig II 'der Strenge', Herzog von Bayern.
Guta's formal betrothal was in 1279 in Jihlava (Iglau), and the wedding took place in early 1285 in Cheb (Eger). The bride was given a dowry 'from the duchy of Austria, the Moravian border to the bank of the Danube'. Following the wedding in Cheb, Rudolf took Guta back to Germany, as she was still young.
Wenceslas' coronation had to be cancelled because Guta was not present. She did eventually leave her family in Germany and came to Prague to be with her husband. Like her father, Guta hated Zawiss, Burggraf von Falkenstein und Rosenberg, her husband's step-father. He had acted as regent with the dowager queen, Kunhata of Slavonia and Machva, whom he had secretly married. Guta helped bring Zawiss to trial and he was eventually executed in 1290, five years after the death of Queen Kunhata.
Guta attempted to reconcile her husband and her brother Albrecht I, the emperor-elect, and she supported her husband's claim on Poland. She brought German influences to the Prague court, like the introduction of a knighthood, and she made Prague a cultural centre.
Wenceslas and Guta were crowned King and Queen of Bohemia in 1297. Guta was not in good health at the time of the coronation, having just given birth to her tenth child and namesake, Guta. She died weeks later in Prague, on 21 May 1297. Only four of her children lived to adulthood, and they died quite young: Wenceslas III died aged 16, Anna was 22, Elisabeth 38 and Margarete 26. Only Elisabeth and Margarete would have progeny.
Her husband went on to marry Ryksa Elzbieta of Poland, who bore him a daughter Agnes; she did not have progeny.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Events
| Birth | 13 Mar 1271 | ||||
| Marriage | 24 Jan 1285 | Wenceslas II (Vaclav) King of Bohemia and Poland | |||
| Death | 18 Jun 1297 | Prague |
Families
| Spouse | Wenceslas II (Vaclav) King of Bohemia and Poland (1271 - 1305) |
| Child | Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292 - 1330) |
| Child | Johann "The Blind" King of Bohemia (1296 - 1346) |
| Father | Rudolf I von Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1218 - 1291) |
| Mother | Gertrud von Hohenberg (1225 - 1281) |
| Sibling | Mathilde von Habsburg (1253 - 1304) |
| Father | Rudolf I von Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1218 - 1291) |
| Mother | Gertrud von Hohenberg (1225 - 1281) |