Career
Kunigunde"s parents were the Bohemian nobles Smil of Sternberg († 1431) and Barbara of Pardubice († 1433). This marriage produced three sons:
Boček (1442–1496)
Victor (1443–1500) and
Henry the Elder (1448–1498)
Barbara (1446–1474), married first with Henry of Lipé (Jindřich z Lipé, † 1469), and second with January Křinecký of Ronov
Catherine (1449–1464) and
Zdenka (1449–1510) (also known as Sidonie of Poděbrady)
In 1444 Kunigunde founded a hospital in Poděbrady. lieutenant was named after her and remained in operation until the beginning of the 20th Century.
She died in 1449, the day after her twenty-fourth birthday and several days after giving birth to twin daughters, and was buried in the parish church Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Poděbrady.