THE QUEEN WITH THREE CROWNS
About the unfortunate sister Mihelina of Turnuška, and especially about the triple queen and empress Barbara of Celje
Collection: Slovenian history, No. 9
Barbara, the youngest daughter of the powerful Count Herman II and Anna of Schaunberg, was not only one of the most beautiful, but also one of the wisest and most capable rulers. At the age of thirteen, she married King Sigismund of Luxembourg and was herself crowned Queen of Hungary, Germany, and Bohemia.
She had with her the court lady Mihelina, who confided in the chronicler many of the queen's love affairs. As well as how her husband sent her into exile, how she had to suffer for her sins, and how she turned copper into gold. Did she manage to retain her feminine dignity?
ag. Rolanda Fugger Germadnik wrote in her introduction to THE WORD ON BARBARA OF CELJSKI, among other things: “Sivč's vision of Barbara of Celje is of course expanded and enriched by a considerable amount of his writer's imagination. However, his entire poetic fiction is nevertheless realized within the framework of known historical facts. The advantage of this novel is that it also takes into account those historical facts about Barbara that were previously inaccessible to us or were presented one-sidedly. Therefore, Sivč's view of Barbara of Celje is much closer to what we have known about her so far. In addition, the writer also consulted with many other historians, thereby bringing the feeling of time even closer to the reader. He also found the lecture by the respected art historian, Dr. Nataša Golob, particularly valuable. It is certainly one of the approaches to Barbara of Celje, which in its own powerful, of course in a literary way, deepens knowledge about Barbara of Celje or opens a new or at least a much wider window to the youngest daughter of the 'most important' Count of Celje, Herman II of Celje, or sister of the famous Prince Frederick II of Celje.”