Catherine was a daughter of Count
Amadeus V of Savoy and his second wife,
Maria of Brabant. As a result of the rapprochement between the Habsburgs and the
House of Luxembourg, discussions began in 1310 regarding Catherine's marriage to Duke Leopold I of Austria, third son of
Albert I of Germany, her mother being a niece of
Henry VII of Luxembourg. The couple finally married in Basel on 26 May 1315. They had: •
Catherine (1320-1349), married to
Enguerrand VI de Coucy •
Agnes (1322-1392), married to Duke
Bolko II of Schweidnitz-Jauer Catherine was also politically active and intervened in the Habsburgs' struggle to regain the throne of the
Holy Roman Empire, after the death of her father-in-law in 1308, and corresponded with
Pope John XXII. Widowed since 1326, she died ten years later. Her body was buried in the
Königsfelden Monastery. Since 1809, Catherine's remains have rested in
Saint Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal. ==References==