Background
She was the second daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra, a daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland.
She was the second daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra, a daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland.
The wedding took place on 25 January 1412 in Buda (German: Ofen), at the residence of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor. Though not approved by the Habsburg family, the marriage turned out to be a happy one. As the mother of the later Emperor Frederick III, Cymburgis, after Gertrude of Hohenburg, became the second female ancestor of all later Habsburgs, as only his branch of the family survived in the male line.
lieutenant can even be recognized in some of her distant descendants today (though not as markedly) as Alphonse XIII. Cymburgis" statue in the Innsbruck Hofkirche church however does not show this feature.
However, her husband"s great-grandfather Albert I, Duke of Austria is presented in one portrait with lieutenant Tradition has it that she was also known for her exceptional strength, which, for example, she showed by driving nails into the wall with her bare hands and cracking nuts between her fingers.
Strength also distinguished one of her descendants, Augustus II the Strong, who used to break horseshoes with his bare hands. She is buried at Lilienfeld Abbey.
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b Innsbruck, 21 September 1415 - d Linz, 19 August 1493).
Margaret of Austria (b Wiener Neustadt, 1416 - d Altenburg, 12 February 1486), married Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (b Vienna, 18 December 1418 - d Vienna, 2 December 1463). Catherine of Austria (b Wiener Neustadt, 1420 - Schloss Hohenbaden, 11 September 1493), married Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
Ernest II of Austria (b Wiener Neustadt, 1420 - d Wiener Neustadt, 10 August 1432).
Alexandra of Austria (b and d Wiener Neustadt, 1421). Anna of Austria (b Wiener Neustadt, 1422 - d Wiener Neustadt, 11 November 1429).
Leopold of Austria (b and d Wiener Neustadt, 1424). Rudolph of Austria (b and d Wiener Neustadt, 1424).
Although controversial, it has been claimed (since at least by Robert Burton in 1621) that she brought the distinctive protruding lower lip (prognathism) into the family, a particular physical characteristic of most members of the family for many generations until the 18th century.