Family
Jutta was born in Prague, Bohemia, on 20 May 1315, the second eldest daughter of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, and Elisabeth of Bohemia. Jutta was an elder sister of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who was crowned six years after her death in 1349. Jutta's maternal grandparents were Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and his first wife, Judith of Habsburg. Her paternal grandparents were Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII and his wife Margaret of Brabant. When Jutta was about fifteen, her mother died. Her father decided to remarry. He chose as his bride Beatrice of Bourbon. They had a son, Wenceslaus, who succeeded his father in Luxembourg.
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