Kunigunde, St, daughter of Count Siegfried of Luxemburg, and wife of Duke Henry of Bavaria, who was crowned king of the Germans in 1002, and emperor in 1014. According to legend, she vindicated her chastity by walking barefoot over hot ploughshares. After her husband's death in 1024 she retired into the convent of Kaufungen, near Cassel, which she had founded, and here she died, 3d March 1030. Pope Innocent III. canonised her in 1200.
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