Early Life
Helene was born in a minor aristocratic family from the region of Ödenburg.
Helene married twice and bore two children. Her first husband was Peter Szekeles, who died in 1431. She then married Johann Kottanner, an aristocrat from Vienna. By 1436, both Helene and her second husband were servants of Albert the second, the then duke of Austria and his wife Elisabeth. Helene's role in this royal Habsburg household was nanny to the children of Albert and Elisabeth. Note that, according to the contemporary German custom of calling a wife or sometimes daughter, the alternative names ending in "-in" amount to adding a feminine suffix to her husband's name.
Read more about this topic: Helene Kottannerin
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“Some would find fault with the morning red, if they ever got up early enough.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No civilization ... would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)