Perchta of Rožmberk was married off for money in 1449, refused her dying husband's plea for forgiveness, and the legend made her the White Lady

Kind 2, with the record. Perchta was born about 1429, a daughter of Oldřich II of Rožmberk, the most powerful lord in South Bohemia. In 1449, when the Rožmberks were short of money, she was married against her will to Jan of Lichtenstein and taken to his estate at Mikulov. Her father promised a dowry of 1,000 kopy of groschen in instalments and the payments stalled^†. Her letters say her husband and his family mistreated her; one account says she was lodged in an unheated room without bedding^†. Thirty-two of her letters survive, written to her father and then her brothers, asking for help; they are held in the Rožmberk archive at Třeboň^†. Neither her father nor her brothers freed her. Her husband died in 1473. On his deathbed he asked her forgiveness, she refused, and he is said to have cursed her. She moved to Vienna and died there on 2 May 1476. The Jesuit historian Bohuslav Balbín (1621 to 1688) read her letters and identified her as the White Lady said to appear in Rožmberk castles before a death in the family. Legends place her at Český Krumlov, Jindřichův Hradec and Telč. She was buried in the Lichtenstein tomb at the Schottenkirche in Vienna^†.