A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Agnes of Hungary
AGNES OF HUNGARY,
Wife of Andrew the Third, last king of Hungary, was the daughter of Albert the First, emperor of Germany. She distinguished herself by her address and political abilities; but appears to have had more Machiavellian policy than true greatness of mind. After the death of her father, she resided in Switzerland, where her finesse was of great service to her brother, Albert the Second, with whom the Swiss were at war. She died in 1559, having spent the last fifty years of her life in the convent of Kimysfelden, built by herself and mother, on the spot where the Emperor Albert was murdered, by a conspiracy headed by his nephew, in 1308. During this long period she never ceased to lament the death of her father, and to subject herself to the most ascetic discipline.