Background
lieutenant is unknown when Hedwig was born, but it was probably between 1258 and 1261 from the evidence of the births of her two closest siblings.
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Hedwig Habsburg
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Career
The Habsburg family did not play much of a role in history until the time of Hedwig"s father, Rudolph, when they became more powerful as the ruling family of Germany. Hedwig was the seventh of nine children borne to her father"s wife Gertrude. Hedwig"s surviving brothers were Albert I of Germany and Rudolph II, Duke of Austria.
When Gertrude died 1281, Rudolph remarried to Isabelle of Burgundy.
Membership
Hedwig was a member of the House of Habsburg.
