See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

SAINT See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• SAINT ELIZABETH (1207-1231)

ELIZABETH (1207-1231)  , daughter of See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew II., See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

Hungary (d . 1235), by his first wife, Gertrude of Andechs-See also:

• MERAN

Meran (d . 1213), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PRESSBURG (Hung. Pozsony, Lat. Posonium)

Pressburg in 1207 . At four years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age she was betrothed to See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis IV., See also:

• LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from Land, " a country" and Graf, "count" )

landgrave of Thuringia, and conducted to the See also:

• WARTBURG, THE

Wartburg, near See also:

• EISENACH

Eisenach, to be educated under the direction of his parents . In spite of her decidedly worldly surroundings at the Thuringian See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court, she evinced from the first an aversion from even the most See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

innocent pleasures, and stimulated by the example of her See also:

• MOTHER

mother's See also:

• SISTER

sister, St Hedwig, wife of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry VI., See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• SILESIA

Silesia-See also:

• BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, devoted her whole See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion and to See also:

• WORKS

works of charity . She was married at the age of fourteen, and acquired such See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence over her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband that he adopted her point of view and zealously assisted her in all her charitable endeavours . According to the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, much celebrated in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• ART

art, Louis at first desired to curtail her excessive charities, and forbade her unbounded gifts'to the poor . One See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, returning from See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting, he met his wife descending from the Wartburg with a heavy bundle filled with See also:

• BREAD

bread' . He sternly bade her open it; she did so, and he saw nothing but a See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of red See also:

• ROSES, WARS OF THE

roses . The See also:

• MIRACLE (Lat. miraculum, from mirari, to wonder)

miracle completed his See also:

• CONVERSION (Lat. conversio, from convertere, to turn or ,change)

conversion . On the See also:

• DEATH

death of Louis " the See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint " in 1227, See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth was deprived of the regency by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, Henry See also:

• RASPE, RUDOLF(MOW, (737-1794)

Raspe IV . (d .

1247), on the pretext that she was wasting the estates by her See also:

• ALMS

alms; and with her three See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children she was driven from her See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home without being allowed to carry with her even the barest necessaries of See also:

• LIFE

life . She lived for some time in See also:

• GREAT

great hardship, but ultimately her maternal See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, Egbert, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• BAMBERG

Bamberg, offered her an See also:

• ASYLUM (from Gr. b.-, privative, arid earl, right'of seizure)
• ASYLUM, RIGHT OF (Fr. droit d'asile; Ger. Asylrecht)

asylum in a See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house adjoining his See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace . Through the intercession of some of the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal barons, the regency was again offered her, and her son See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann was declared See also:

• HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir to the landgraviate; but renouncing all See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and making use of her See also:

• WEALTH

wealth only for charitable purposes, she preferred to live in seclusion at See also:

• MARBURG
• MARBURG, COLLOQUY OF (Marburger Religionsgesprach)

Marburg under the direction of her See also:

• CONFESSOR

confessor, the bigoted persecutor See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad of Marburg . There she spent the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of her days in penances of unusual severity, and in ministrations to the sick, especially those afflicted with the most loathsome diseases . She died at Marburg on the 19th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1231, and four years afterwards was canonized by See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory IX. on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the frequent miracles reported to have been performed at her See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb . The See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition in the Royal See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of P . H . See also:

• CALDERON, RODRIGO (d. 1621), COUNT OF OLIVA AND MARQUES DE LAS SIETE IGLESIAS

Calderon's picture, " St Elizabeth of Hungary's Great See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of Renunciation," now in the See also:

• TATE, JAMES (1771-1843)
• TATE, NAHUM (1652-1715)
• TATE, RALPH (1840-1901)
• TATE, SIR HENRY, BART

Tate See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery in See also:

• LONDON

London, roused considerable protest among Catholics . The saint is represented as kneeling nude before the See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar, in the presence of her confessor and a couple of nuns . The passage this is intended to illustrate is in See also:

• LIB

Lib. iv . § r of See also:

• DIETRICH, CHRISTIAN WILHELM ERNST (1712-1774)

Dietrich of See also:

• APOLDA

Apolda's Vita, which relates how, on a certain See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday, she went into a See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel and, in the presence of some Franciscan See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, laid her hands on the See also:

• BARE

bare altar, renounced her own will, her parents, children, relations, and all pomps of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind (hujus modi) in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ; and stripped herself utterly naked (omnino se exuit et nudavit) in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to follow Him naked, in the steps of poverty . A literal inter= pretation of this passage is not impossible; for ecstatic mystics of all ages have .indulged in a like !cevecacs, and Conrad, who revelled in inflicting religious tortures, was quite capable of imposing this crowning humiliation upon his See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle victim .

It is far more probable, however, that the passage is not to be taken literally . Lives of St Elizabeth were written by Theodoricus (Dietrich) of Apolda (b . 1228), Caesarius of Heisterbach (d. c 1240), Conrad of Marburg and others (see See also:

• POTTHAST, AUGUST (1824—1898)

Potthast, Bibl . Hist . Med . Aev. p . 1284) . A metrical life in German exists by Tohann See also:

• ROTHE, RICHARD (1799-1867)

Rothe (d. c . 1440), See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain to the Landgravine See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne of Thuringia (Potthast, p . 985) . L'Histoire de Sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie, by See also:

• MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENE DE (1810-1870)
• MONTALEMBERT, MARC

Montalembert, was published at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1836 . Her life has also supplied the materials for a dramatic poem by See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875)
• KINGSLEY, HENRY (183o-1876)
• KINGSLEY, MARY HENRIETTA (1862-1900)

Kingsley, entitled the " Saint's Tragedy." The edition of this in vol. xvi. of the Life and Works of Charles Kingsley (London, 1902) has valuable notes, with many extracts from the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• SOURCES

sources .