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Margaret of Luxembourg (1276-1311), Countess of Luxemburg and Queen of the Romans, was a daughter of Jean I, Duke of Brabant and Limburg and his second wife Marguerite of Flanders. In 1292 she married the two years older Count Heinrich of Luxemburg to strengthen a peace contract between Luxemburg and Brabant. She died in Genoa, infected by an epidemic. Her tomb at San Francesco di Castelletto was a work by Giovanni Pisano made of Carrara marble. The church was demolished in 1805, and the stock sold. Some pieces of the tomb ended up in museums in Genoa.
Giovanni Pisano's artistic career ended with the tomb of Margaret of Luxembourg. On the sarcophagus, supported by four Virtues and crowned with a Virgin and Child in a tabernacle (resembling the Virgin and Child in Berlin), Margaret was depicted rising from her tomb, turning towards the east while shaking off the sleep of death, beyond the two angels arched above her.
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