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MARGARET MAULTASCH (1318-1369)

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MARGARET MAULTASCH (1318-1369) , countess of See also:Tirol, who received the name of Maultasch (See also:pocket-mouth) on See also:account of the shape of her mouth, was the daughter and heiress of See also:Henry, See also:duke of See also:Carinthia and See also:count of Tirol. When Henry died in 1335 Carinthia passed to See also:Albert II., duke of See also:Austria; but Tirol was inherited by Margaret and her See also:young See also:husband, See also:John Henry, son of John, See also:king of Bohemia, whom she had married in 1330. This See also:union was not a happy one, and the Tirolese disliked the See also:government of See also:Charles, afterwards the See also:emperor Charles IV., who ruled the See also:county for his See also:brother. The result was that John Henry was driven from Tirol, and Margaret's cause was espoused by the emperor See also:Louis IV., who was anxious to add the county to his possessions. Declaring her See also:marriage dissolved on the ground that it had not been consummated, Louis married Margaret in 1342 to his own son Louis, See also:margrave of See also:Brandenburg. But as this See also:action on the emperor's See also:part en-trenched on the privileges of the See also:Church, See also:Pope See also:Clement VI. placed See also:father and son under the See also:ban, from which they were not released until 1359. In 1361 Margaret's husband died, followed two years later by her only son, Meinhard, when she handed over Tirol to See also:Rudolph IV., duke of Austria, and retired to See also:Vienna, where she died on the 3rd of See also:October 1369. She lived See also:long in the memory of the See also:people of Carinthia, who regarded her as an See also:amazon, and called her the Wicked Gretl. See A. See also:Huber, Geschichte der Vereinigung Tirols mit Oesterreich ;See also:Innsbruck, 1864).

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