Category:Saint Elisabeth of Hungary

(born in 1207, died in 1231, Memorial on November 17)
 * Elisabeth was born in 1207 in Presburg (now known as Bratislava), Hungary. She was the daughter of her father King Andrew II of Hungary and her mother Gertrude. In 1211, when Elisabeth was only four years old, an embassy from Thuringia came to arrange a marriage between Elisabeth and Hermann, the son of the Landgrave Herman I of Thuringia. Not long after she was sent to the Thuringian court to grow up. Her husband-to-be died in 1216, so it was determined that she would marry the next son, Ludwig (also known as Louis). Landgrave Hermann I died on April 25, 1217, and Ludwig assumed the throne as Ludwig IV. He married Elisabeth in 1221, and they had three children: Hermann II, Sophia, and Gertrude. She died on November 17, 1231.