Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ludwig von BAVARIA IV (1282-1347)

Personal data Ludwig von BAVARIA IV 

  • He was born on April 1, 1282 in München, München, Oberbayern, Germany.
  • Title: Holy Roman Emperor
  • (Ancestry) : House of Wittelsbach.
  • He died on October 11, 1347 in München, München, Oberbayern, Germany, he was 65 years old.
  • He is buried October 1347 in Frauenkirche Cathedral, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
  • A child of Ludwig von BAVARIA and Mathilde von HABSBURG

Household of Ludwig von BAVARIA IV

(1) He is married to Margaret d'AVESNES.

They got married on February 26, 1323/24 at Cologne, Rhein-Westphalia, Germany, he was 40 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Albrecht von BAVARIA  1336-1404 
  2. Elizabeth von BAVARIA  1329-1402 
  3. Anna von BAVARIA  1326-1361
  4. Beatrix von BAVARIA  1344-1359
  5. Otto von BAVARIA  1346-1379
  6. Margarethe von BAVARIA  1325-1360 
  7. Wilhelm von BAVARIA  1330-1388
  8. Ludwig von BAVARIA  1328-1365

  • The couple has common ancestors.

  • (2) He has/had a relationship with Beatrice von SILESIA.


    Child(ren):

    1. Stephen von BAVARIA  1319-1375 
    2. Mechthilde von BAVARIA  > 1313-1346 
    3. Ludwig von BAVARIA  1315-1361 

    • The couple has common ancestors.

    • Notes about Ludwig von BAVARIA IV

      Born in Munich, Germany. Son of Ludwig Von Wittlelsbach II, Duke Upper Bayern (1229-1294) and Mathilde Von Habsburg (1254-1304). Founder of the Duchy of Bavaria (Herzogtum Bayern). King Ludwig IV, The Bavarian was the first German king of the Wittlesbacher dynasty to be crowned in 1314 and was crowned emperor in 1328.

      Married to Beatrix Von Silezia of Silezia-Glogau in 1309. Beatrix born in 1290, Died in 1322.

      Married to Margaretha-Comtesse de Hainault, d' Avesnes, February 25,1324 in Koln, Rheinland, Prussia. Margaretha born in 1311 of Le Quesnoy, Nord, France, Died June 23, 1356 in Le Quesnoy, Nord, France. She is buried in Valenciennes, Nord, France.

      Buried in the Frauenkirche Cathedral (Church of Our Lady) in Munich (Muenchen), Germany. Ludwig IV died in 1347 of a stroke.

      Family and children
      In 1308 Louis IV married his first wife, Beatrix of Świdnica. Their children were:

      Mathilde (aft. 21 June 1313 - 2 July 1346, Meißen), married at Nuremberg 1 July 1329 Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1349)
      a child (b. September 1314)
      Anna (c. 1316 - 29 January 1319, Kastl)
      Louis V the Brandenburger (1316-1361), duke of Upper Bavaria, margrave of Brandenburg, count of Tyrol
      Agnes (b. c. 1318)
      Stephen II (1319-1375), duke of Lower Bavaria

      In 1324 he married his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut and Holland. Their children were:

      Margaret (1325-1374), married:
      in 1351 in Ofen Stephen, Duke of Slavonia (d. 1354), son of the King Charles I of Hungary;
      1357/58 Gerlach von Hohenlohe.
      Anna (c. 1326 - 3 June 1361, Fontenelles) married John I of Lower Bavaria (d. 1340)
      Louis VI the Roman (1328-1365), duke of Upper Bavaria, elector of Brandenburg.
      Elisabeth (1329 - 2 August 1402, Stuttgart), married:
      Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359) in Verona on 22 November 1350;
      Count Ulrich of Württemberg (died 1388 in the Battle of Döffingen) in 1362.
      William V of Holland (1330-1389), as William I duke of Lower Bavaria, as William III count of Hainaut
      Albert I of Holland (1336-1404), duke of Lower Bavaria, count of Hainaut and Holland
      Otto V the Bavarian (1346-1379), duke of Upper Bavaria, elector of Brandenburg
      Beatrix of Bavaria (1344 - 25 December 1359), married bef. 25 October 1356 Eric XII of Sweden
      Agnes (Munich, 1345 - 11 November 1352, Munich)
      Louis (October 1347 - 1348)
      SOURCE: Wikipedia

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