Agnes of Austria

Agnes of Austria (1281–1364) was a daughter of King Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Tirol. In 1296 she married Andrew III of Hungary, and with her father's backing the king put down baronial revolts. Small of stature, she wore dresses her sisters had outgrown.

Andrew's death in 1301 ended the male line of the Árpád dynasty; a contemporary, Stephen Ákos, called him its last golden twig. Agnes, a childless widow of nineteen, never remarried. She became patron of Königsfelden Monastery and lived nearby with her stepdaughter Elizabeth.

Her good name made her a sought-after mediator: in 1333 she arranged a treaty between Austria and Swiss towns, and in 1351 she settled a dispute between Duke Albert II and the Swiss Confederacy. She died at Königsfelden in 1364.