Catherine of Savoy

Catherine of Savoy (Brabant, between 1297 and 1304 - Rheinfelden, 30 September 1336) was a princess of the House of Savoy, and since 1315 the wife of Leopold I, Duke of Austria and Styria (1290-1326) from the House of Habsburg.

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 marriage produced two daughters : 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.

Since 1809, Catherine's remains have rested in Saint Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal.