House of Luxembourg¶

House card¶


Seat	Buda (Hungary), Prague (Bohemia) and the imperial court. [Historical record]
Arms / sigil	The Luxembourg lion; Sigismund’s arms combine Hungary, Bohemia and the imperial eagle. He founded the Order of the Dragon in 1408. [Historical record]
Words	Divide et arbitra. “Divide, then arbitrate.” [The saga’s invention]
Patron / burden	The Shadow-Seller serves him in 1429–30; the Gold-Glutton flatters him. [The saga’s invention]

House of Luxembourg


Type	house
Status	Historical record
Note	Sigismund (1368–1437): King of Hungary, of the Romans, of Bohemia, Emperor; offered Vytautas a crown at Lutsk, 1429.

Lineage¶

Sigismund (1368–1437), son of Emperor Charles IV: King of Hungary 1387, King of the Romans 1411, of Bohemia 1419/1436, Emperor 1433. Married Mary of Hungary (1385), then Barbara of Celje (1405/08), a cousin of Jogaila’s second queen Anna of Celje. [Historical record]

Feuds & alliances¶

Arbiter between Poland and the Order (the Breslau award of 1420 went against Poland); host of the Council of Constance; ally of the Order in 1409–10; opponent of the Polish–Lithuanian union, which a Lithuanian crown could split.

Fate across the books¶

III: a reigning king of forty-one, not a “younger” figure, who takes the Order’s money before Grunwald.
IV: at the Congress of Lutsk (Jan 1429) he offers Vytautas a crown, then sends it by couriers who are robbed on the Polish border in August 1430. In the saga, Henė is his jester and the crown turns to leaves.
V: dead by 1437; his daughter’s marriage to Albert II of Habsburg carries his claims to the Habsburgs. [Historical record]

Relations

Ally: Kęstutaičiai (Kęstutis’s line) (1429–1430) — The Lutsk crown offer.

Members: Sigismund of Luxembourg

Connections¶

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  luxembourg["House of Luxembourg"]
  sigismund["Sigismund of Luxembourg"]
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  sigismund -->|Member of| luxembourg
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