Constantia of Austria
| Constance of Babenberg | |
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| Margravine of Meissen | |
Portrait in the Babenberg pedigree, Klosterneuburg Monastery
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| Born | 6 May 1212 |
| Died | before 5 June 1243 |
| Noble family | House of Babenberg |
| Spouse(s) | Henry III, Margrave of Meissen |
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| Father | Leopold VI, Duke of Austria |
| Mother | Theodora Angelina |
Constance of Babenberg (German: Konstanze von Österreich; 6 May 1212 – before 5 June 1243), a member of the House of Babenberg, was Margravine of Meissen from 1234 until her death, by her marriage with Margrave Henry the Illustrious.
Constance was a younger daughter of Duke Leopold VI of Austria and his wife, the Byzantine princess Theodora Angelina, daughter of Emperor Isaac II Angelos. In 1225 her elder sister Margaret married the 14-year-old Henry (VII), King-elect of Germany and eldest son of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II. Upon her father's death in 1230, the Babenberg duchies of Austria and Styria passed to her brother Frederick the Quarrelsome.
On 1 May 1234 Constance married the Wettin margrave Henry the Illustrious. The wedding took place in an opne field near Vienna rather than in the newly erected Hofburg residence of the Babenbergs. It is believed that the conversion of the castle had not been completed, or perhaps it was too small. There are three sources for information about the wedding itself. Two of them report that the wedding happened in campo inuxta Stadelowe, in other words, in Stadlau. The third source reports that the wedding took place in aput Ringlense, a name which has fallen into disuse and was used instead of today's Floridsdorf.
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