St. Elizabeth of Hungary
A Hungarian king's daughter married at fourteen to the Landgrave of Thuringia, widowed at twenty, who spent her dower on a hospital at Marburg and died there at twenty-four.
Canonized 1235
Benedict XVI, General Audience on St Elizabeth of Hungary (20 October 2010)
Sources
- General Roman Calendar, 17 November, memorial. Liturgy Office, England and Wales. https://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/Info/General-Roman-Calendar.pdf
- USCCB Liturgical Calendar 2026, 17 November — 'Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious', Memorial. https://www.usccb.org/resources/2026cal.pdf
- Benedict XVI, General Audience, 20 October 2010 — born 1207; married Ludwig IV of Thuringia; died in the night of 17 November 1231 at twenty-four, after spending her last three years in the hospital she founded; canonized by Gregory IX four years after her death. https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20101020.html
- Catholic Encyclopedia (Herbermann, 1907-1913), 'St. Elizabeth of Hungary', also called Elizabeth of Thuringia. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05389a.htm
- REGION: recorded as Hungary, where she was born and which her name carries. She married into Thuringia and died at Marburg, in modern Germany; that belongs in a Tier 1 narrative rather than this one-word field.
- Historicity is 'documented': sworn testimony taken for the canonization process within a few years of her death survives, including the depositions of four of her own handmaids.