Deaths on April 10

Elisabeth von Rapperswil

Died on April 10, 1309

Elisabeth von Rapperswil, Swiss sovereign countess of Rapperswil (b. 1261)

Elisabeth von Rapperswil (also von Habsburg-Laufenburg, von Homberg, born around 1251 or 1261; died 1309 probably in Rapperswil) was the last countess of the House of Rapperswil, and secured by her second marriage the female line of the Counts of Rapperswil and the extensive possessions of Rapperswil in the former Zürichgau to the Laufenburg line. Her son by first marriage was Reichsvogt Wernher von Homberg, and her oldest son by second marriage was Count Johann von Habsburg-Laufenburg who passed over the title of the count of Rapperswil to his oldest son Johann II and his brothers Rudolf and Gotfried.

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Knights Hospitaller
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