Viridis Visconti

• Preferred Name: Viridis Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis Visconti Duchess of Austria Styria and Carinthia
  
• Alternate Name: Virida Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis de Milan
  
• Alternate Name: Vindis Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Virida Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Veridis Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Österreich
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis
  
• Alternate Name: Verde VISCONTI
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis de Milan
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis Albrecht
  
• Alternate Name: Herzogin von Mailand und Herzogin von Österreich
  
• Alternate Name: Virdis Albrecht
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis of Milan
  
• Alternate Name: Viridis Visconti
  
• Alternate Name: Virdis Margravess Of Austria
  
• Alternate Name: Verde Visconti Duchess
  
• Gender: F
  
• Web Page FAG: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39623952 Ancestory.com
  
• Residence: in Milan, Milan at LATI: N5.4652 LONG: E0.1907 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 1 MAR 1414 in Sittich, Feldkirchen, Karnten, Duchy of Austria at LATI: N6.706 LONG: E4.1268 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: LCPF-F4P
  
• Alt. Birth: 1352 in Milan, Provincia di Milano, Italy at LATI: N5.4652 LONG: E0.1907
  
• Birth: 1352 in Milan, Milano, Duchy of Lombardia at LATI: N5.4652 LONG: E0.1907 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial: in Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia at LATI: N6.0506 LONG: E4.5065
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridis_Visconti
  Viridis Visconti (1352–1414) was an Italian noblewoman, a daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. By her marriage to Leopold III, Duke of Austria, Viridis was Duchess consort of Austria, Styria and Carinthia, she was also Countess consort of Tyrol.
  
  Viridis was born in Milan, Italy and was the second of seventeen children.
  
  Her sister, Taddea Visconti married Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria and was mother of Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France. Viridis and the rest of her sisters secured politically advantageous marriages.
  
  Her maternal grandparents were Mastino II della Scala and his wife Taddea da Carrara. Her paternal grandparents were Stefano Visconti and his wife Valentina Doria.
  
  Viridis' father, Bernabò was described as a cruel and ruthless despot. He was also an implacable enemy of the Church. He seized the papal city of Bologna, rejected the Pope and his authority, confiscated ecclesiastical property, and forbade any of his subjects to have any dealings with the Curia. He was excommunicated as a heretic in 1363 by Pope Urban V, who preached crusade against him.[1] When Bernabò was in one of his frequent rages, only the children's mother, Beatrice Regina was able to approach him.[2]
  
  Viridis married Leopold III, Duke of Austria, son of Albert II, Duke of Austria and his wife Johanna of Pfirt.[3] The couple had six children:
  
  William
  Leopold
  Ernest the Iron
  Frederick
  Elisabeth (1378–1392)
  Katharina (1385–?) Abbess of St. Klara in Vienna
  Viridis was widowed in 1386 and so their eldest son, William became Duke of Austria.
  
  William was engaged to Jadwiga of Hungary, youngest daughter of the neighboring king, was one of the first attempts of the House of Habsburg to extend their sphere of influence in Eastern Central Europe by marrying heiresses, a practice that gave rise to the phrase Bella gerant alii: tu felix Austria nube (Let others make war: thou happy Austria, marry). The wedding was broken off.
  
  Viridis died on 1 March 1414 and out-lived at least three of six children, since her younger daughter, Katherine's date of death is unknown. Viridis is buried in Sittich in Lower Carniola
  
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• m. 23 FEB 1365 in Milano, Milano, Italy

1. Ernst von Habsburg I, b. 2 OCT 1377 in Mur, Graz Umgebung, Styria, Austria     d. 10 JUN 1424 in Bruck an der Mur, Steiermark, Österreich, Deutschland