Margaret Maultasch

Margaret, called Maultasch (1318–1369), was the last Countess of Tyrol from the House of Gorizia and the only surviving child of Duke Henry of Carinthia. In 1330 she married John Henry of Luxembourg; the two disliked each other from the start.

Habsburgs and Wittelsbachs had agreed to carve up Tyrol, but the Tyroleans refused; only the Peace of Enns in 1336 let her enter her inheritance. On the night of 1 November 1341 she and her councillors barred the gates of Tyrol Castle against her husband, back late from a hunt.

In 1342 she married Margrave Louis of Brandenburg without a divorce, and was excommunicated by Pope Clement VI. When her son Meinhard III died in 1363, she ceded Tyrol to Rudolf IV and retired to Vienna, dying in 1369 after the Wittelsbachs abandoned their claim.