Her elder sister Agnes married King Philip II of France ( annulled in 1200 ) and her sister Gertrude ( killed in 1213 ) King Andrew II of Hungary, while the youngest Matilda ( Mechtild ) became abbess at the Benedictine Abbey of Kitzingen in Franconia, where Hedwig also received her education.

Hedwig always helped the poor and donated all her fortune to the Church.

On 15 October 1243, Hedwig died and was buried in Trzebnica Abbey with her husband, while relics of her are preserved at Andechs Abbey and St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin.

Hedwig was canonized in 1267 by Pope Clement IV, a supporter of the Cistercian order, at the suggestion of her grandson Prince-Archbishop Władysław of Salzburg.

A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.

She was also known for her piety and her admiration for Saints Mary, Martha, and Bridget of Sweden, as well as her patron saint, Hedwig of Andechs.

Two months after his death, the Poles offered to do homage to either Mary or Hedwig, on condition that the queen and her husband agree to live in Poland.

The nobles accepted the proposal that Hedwig should reign over them and Elizabeth contended herself with seeing her other daughter ascend to the Polish throne.

In 1477 Abbess Hedwig, aided by her brothers Ernest and Albert, broke the resistance of the town and expelled the bishop's forces.

A princess and spinster, she took care of her dominating grandmother, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, during her brother's absence in the Great Northern War.

Two of her granddaughters, Sophie and Hedwig, would later join this abbey, one of them as abbess.

Hedwig Village's name originates from Hedwig Road, which was built on the property of Hedwig Jankowski Schroeder ; Schroeder and her husband immigrated from Germany to Texas in 1906 so they could farm.

Hedwig Gorski before 1982 came up up with the term performance poetry, to distinguish her text-based vocal performances from performance art, especially the work of performance artists, such as Laurie Anderson, who worked with music at that time.

In one notable incident, in the late 1930s, a letter from her to Hitler prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim ( whose daughter Katia was married to Thomas Mann ) from being arrested by the Gestapo.

He entered the Holstein-Gottorp service, and after the death of the duchess Hedwig Sophia, Charles XII of Sweden's sister, became very influential during the minority of her son Duke Charles Frederick.

Princess Michael of Kent was born on 15 January 1945, in Karlsbad, in the then-German-populated Sudetenland, now known as Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, near the family estates of her Austrian maternal grandmother, Princess Hedwig von Windisch-Graetz, just prior to the defeat and the end of Nazi Germany and of World War II in Europe, and the following expulsion of the German population later that year.

The Queen Dowager Regent Hedwig Eleonora bought the castle in 1661, a year after her role as Queen of Sweden ended, but it burnt to the ground on 30 December that same year.

The hostility between and Holstein-Gottorp and Denmark also made the relationship between Hedwig Eleonora and her Danish daughter-in-law tense.

# Hedwig ( d. 1203 ), married to Otto II, Margrave of Meissen

Hedwig married Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg

Hedwig and Henry had several daughters, though only one surviving son, Henry II the Pious, who succeeded his father as Duke of Silesia and Polish High Duke.

After Magdalena's death which occurred well before Joachim ascended the electorate, Joachim II Hector married Hedwig Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland.

Sigismund's eldest daughter Hedwig ( 1513 – 1573 ) married Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg.

A scene from an altar of St. Hedwig of Silesia: Mongol warriors display the head of Henry II of Silesia on a long lance in an attempt to weaken the morale of the defenders.

* Maria Kunigunde Dorothea Hedwig Franziska Xaveria Florentina ( b. Warsaw, 10 November 1740-d. Dresden, 8 April 1826 ), Princess-Abbess of Thorn and Essen ; nearly married Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ; Philippe Égalité.

By his wife, Marie Friederike Franziska Hedwig, daughter of Prince William of Prussia, whom he married in 1842, he had two sons, Ludwig II of Bavaria and Otto of Bavaria, both of whom became king, were declared insane, and deposed.

He married Hedwig ( or Advisa ) of France on January 25, 1016, daughter of Robert II, King of France and Constance of Arles.

Her husband William I was the son of Renauld I, Count of Nevers and Hedwig / Advisa of Auxerre, daughter of Robert II of France.

Petronila and Floris II had four children, three boys and one girl: Dirk, Floris, Simon and Hedwig, respectively.

* Hedwig, married in 1211 to Count Albert II of Weimar-Orlamünde

In 1661, Hedwig Eleonora was considered a possible consort for King Charles II of England.

After Hungarian King Louis I's death in 1382, Stephen Tvrtko became the protector of his cousin and Louis's widow Elizabeth, and her daughters, Queen Mary of Hungary and Queen Hedwig of Poland.

Henry erected a stone castle at Krosno, where he died in 1238 and where his widow, Hedwig of Andechs, took refuge during the 1241 Mongol invasion of Europe.

When king Magnus Ladulås died, Torkel became regent for the underage king Birger, being the highest state official and because Magnus ' foreign-born widow, Hedwig of Holstein, was not trusted to such powerful position yet.

Princess Michael of Kent ( Baroness Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida ; née von Reibnitz ; born 15 January 1945 ) is an Austrian-Hungarian member of the British Royal Family.

His mother, Hedvika ( Hedwig ) Anna Augusta Dvořáček, was the daughter of a German-speaking mother but her father was of Czech origin.

In 1878 he married the Berlin actress Gertrude Hedwig Anna Dohm ( 1855 – 1942 ), whose mother was the famous Berlin advocate of women ’ s rights Hedwig Dohm ( 1831 – 1919 ).

During her later years, Hedwig Eleonora was criticized for her favourite, Anna Catharina von Bärfelt, whose influence led to an open conflict with Gyllenstierna.

Béla's reign was notable for his foreign policy-his sisters Hedwig and Adelaide were married to a son of Margrave Leopold III of Austria and to Duke Sobeslav I of Bohemia respectively, thereby allying Hungary with two previously inimical states.

She was a descendant, via the von Gleichen and von Henneberg families from Henry I the Child, Landgrave of Hesse, and thus also of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St Ludwig of Thuringia, St. Hedwig of Silesia and Charlemagne, besides St. Olga of Pleskau, St. Vladimir of Kiev, St. Ludmilla of Bohemia, St. Olaf of Norway and St. Matilda von Ringelsheim.

Hedwig Village was incorporated on December 23, 1954 and established a zoning ordinance in 1955.