[or Cunigunde, Cunegunda]. 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 a legend, when accused of infidelity she vindicated her chastity by walking barefoot over hot plowshares and coming out of the ordeal unhurt. After her husband’s death, in 1024, she retired into the convent of Kaufungen, near Cassel, which she had founded, and there she died on the 3rd of March 1040. Pope Innocent III. canonized her in 1200.
