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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture St Elizabeth of Hungary (or Thuringia as she if more commonly known today) Elizabeth was born daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania. In 1221 she was married to Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, and she bore him three children. She was strongly influenced by the Franciscan friars who arrived in 1223 and she has been claimed as an early member of the Third Order, though this is challenged. At about this time she came under the influence of Konrad von Marburg, a Dominican friar, who became her confessor. After the death of her husband at Otranto on the way to the sixth Crusade in 1227 she moved away from Wartburg and came increasingly under the harsh rule of Konrad. Her children were sent away and Elizabeth died in 1231 at the age of 24. She was quickly canonized by Gregory IX, many posthumous miracles being attributed to her. Rouen, St Ouen, Bay 25, 2 scenes of Elizabeth's miracles in glass by Arnoult de Nimègue (c.1508), with other landscape scenes by J J Gruber of 1976: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15681671165 and details: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15062315083 https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15679767551 Gordon Plumb ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion