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Hedwig also Heilwig, [1] (c. 778 – c. 835) was a Saxon noblewoman, abbess of Chelles, [1] the wife of Count Welf, and mother-in-law of Emperor Louis the Pious through his marriage to Judith, her daughter.
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia , including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl , and secretly moved to ...
In 996 Hedwig married Reginar IV of Hainaut (947–1013). [2] Their children were: Reginar V, Count of Mons [3] Gisèle (998-1049), who married Wautier III d'Olhain; Lambert; Beatrix, who married Ebles I, Count of Rheims and Roucy [2] Ermentrude, died at the age of two or three; buried in the Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude in Nivelles ...
Hedwig was a daughter of Duke Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels, who was a grandson of the King George of Bohemia. Her mother was Anna of Sagan, a daughter of John II, the last Duke of Żagań (Sagan). On 9 January 1525 Hedwig married George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach. She was George's second wife. The marriage produced two daughters:
Jadwiga (Polish: ⓘ; 1373 or 1374 – 17 July 1399), also known as Hedwig (from German) and in Hungarian: Hedvig, was the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death.
Hedwig Jagiellon (Polish: Jadwiga Jagiellonka; Lithuanian: Jadvyga Jogailaitė, German: Hedwig Jagiellonica; 21 September 1457 – 18 February 1502), baptized as Hedwigis, was a Polish princess and member of the Jagiellonian dynasty. She was Duchess of Bavaria by marriage to George, Duke of Bavaria.
Hedwig (also known as Hadewig or Hathui; died 24 December 903), [1] was Duchess of Saxony (from about 880 until her death) by her marriage with the Liudolfing duke Otto the Illustrious. She was the mother of King Henry the Fowler .
Casimir forged a papal dispensation because he had a fourth-degree relation to Hedwig. In 1368 Pope Urban V allowed Casimir to stay with Hedwig since his marriage to Christina was invalid. Adelaide died in 1371. Casimir awaited the birth of a son. If no son was born then Casimir's nephew, Louis I of Hungary, would inherit the throne. Instead of ...