Barbara of Cilli (Slovenian Barbara Celjska) or Barbara of Celje (about 1390/1395 - 11 July 1451) was the daughter of Hermann II, Count of Celje and his wife Anna von Schaunberg. She was thus a Slovenian noblewoman of high rank, but nothing like royal. Events Births December 27 - Anne Mortimer John Dunstable, English composer (d. ... Events End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family. ... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... Events February 3 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II. April 11 - Celje acquires market-town status and town rights by orders from the Celje count Frederic II. June 30 - French troops under the Comte de Dunois invade Guyenne and capture... Hermann II, Count of Celje (Count of Cilli) (about 1365 - 13 October 1435), Ban of Croatia, Slovenia and Dalmatia, was son of Herman I, Count of Celje and his wife Katerina of Bosnia. ... Categories: Stub ...

In 1408 she married Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368-1437), Elector of Brandenburg 1376-1415, German King 1410-1437, King of Hungary 1387-1437, King of Bohemia 1419-1437, and Holy Roman Emperor 1433-1437. Events December 13 - The Order of the Dragon is officially formated under King Sigismund of Hungary. ... Sigismund (February 14/15, 1368 - December 9, 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 to 1437. ... The Margrave of Brandenburg was one of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire created by the Golden Bull of 1356. ... The following list of German Kings and Emperors is one of several Wikipedia lists of incumbents. ... This is a list of all rulers of Hungary since Árpád. ... The Lands of the Bohemian Crown (Czech Země koruny české, Latin Corona regni Bohemiae) (e. ... The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ...

Her cousin Anna of Celje had 1402 married King Vladislav Jagello of Lithuania and Poland, another widower of the Angevin sisters (Jadwiga of Poland). Sigismund, widower of Mary I of Hungary, followed and wed from the same family. Barbara's father was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary). She was to strengthen Sigismund's grip to the restless Hungary. Wladislaus II on Jan Matejkos painting Wladislaus II Jagiello (Polish Władysław II Jagiełło, Lithuanian Jogaila, Belarusian Jahajla (Ягайла)) (c. ... This article is about 14th century queen and saint. ... Mary of Hungary (in Hungarian and Slovakian: Mária) was the second of three daughters of Louis I the Great of Hungary from the House of Angevin (Anjou). ... Nemanjić (Serbian Немањић; also Nemanjid) was a medieval Serb ruling dynasty. ... King Stephen V of Hungary (Hungarian: ,Slovak: Štefan V)(1239 or 1240 - August 6, 1272), was the eldest son of Bela IV of Hungary, whom he succeeded in 1270. ...

She gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth, who married Albrecht of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria. Barbara lived to see her three grandchildren, Anna, Elisabeth and Ladislas. She is one of the ancestresses of modern European royal families, her blood flowing in the veins of most of today's dynasties. Elisabeth of Luxembourg (b 1409 (before 27 November), d 25 Dec 1442) was the only daughter of Emperor Sigismund, king of Bohemia and Hungary, the last Luxemburg on the Imperial Throne. ... Albert II Habsburg (August 10, 1397 - October 27, 1439), German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was born on August 10, 1397, the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria. ...

Barbara (Borbala) of Cilli was unique in her times, in that as a woman, she studied and became adept in Alchemy, which she demonstrated, with various degrees of success, to visiting alchemists.

In her unbounded ambition, she had her chambermaid steal the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen from the fortress of Visegrad, and she forced the archbishop to crown her grandson, Ladislaus "Posthumus," King of Hungary, without the consent of the various Estates.

Then she fled, and placed the child and the Crown in the grasp of Friedrich III, of Habsburg, from whence it had to be ransomed with hundreds of thousands of gold pieces, by Matthias Corvinus, elected King of Hungary.

This theft of the Holy Crown of St. Stephen set the precedent for hundreds of years of Habsburg exploitation of the Hungarian domain.