Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ludwig von BAVARIA V (1315-1361)

Personal data Ludwig von BAVARIA V 

• He was born May 1315 in Schwabia, Bavaria, Germany.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1324) below 16 years (9).

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (11) when child (Elizabeth von BAVARIA) was born (??-??-1326).

• Title: Duke of Bavaria, Margrave of Brandenburg, Count of Tyrol
• (Nickname) : The Brandenburger.
• (Ancestry) : House of Wittelsbach.
• He died on September 18, 1361 in Zorneding, Ebersberg, Bayern, Germany, he was 46 years old.
• A child of Ludwig von BAVARIA and Beatrice von SILESIA

Household of Ludwig von BAVARIA V

(1) He is married to Margaret von GORIZIA-TYROL.

They got married in the year 1342, he was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Hermann von BAVARIA  1343-1360
2. Meinhard von GORIZIA-TYROL  1344-1363

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Margrete of DENMARK.

They got married in the year 1324, he was 8 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth von BAVARIA  1326-1345


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Ludwig von BAVARIA V

Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, called the Brandenburger (May 1315 - 18 September 1361) was Duke of Bavaria and as Louis I also Margrave of Brandenburg and Count of Tyrol. Louis V was the eldest son of Emperor Louis IV and his first wife Beatrix of Świdnica. He was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

Louis V was Margrave of Brandenburg from 1323 when he received the territory as a fiefdom from his father. As such, Louis contributed to the Declaration at Rhense in 1338. Wittelsbach rule in Brandenburg never earned much popular support. As a consequence of the murder of Provost Nikolaus von Bernau by Berlin citizens in 1325, the town was punished with a papal interdict. From 1328 onwards Louis was in war against the Duchy of Pomerania, which he claimed as a fiefdom. The conflict did not end before 1333, when he gave up his claims.

In order to acquire Tyrol for the Wittelsbach family, Louis V married Margarete Maultasch in 1342 before she was divorced from her previous husband, John Henry of Luxembourg. John Henry was a son of John the Blind, who had deposed Margarete's father, Henry of Gorizia-Tyrol as King of Bohemia in 1310. William of Ockham and Marsilius of Padua defended this first "civil marriage" in the Middle Ages. The Pope, however, excommunicated the couple and the scandal was known across Europe. Tyrol was punished with a papal interdict.

When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers. In 1349, Bavaria and the Wittelsbach possessions in the Netherlands were partitioned; he and his younger brothers Louis VI the Roman and Otto V the Bavarian received Upper Bavaria. His brothers Stephen II, William I and Albert I received Lower Bavaria, Holland and Hainaut.

The banned Louis could not apply for the German crown and his party tried to move Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, to the acceptance of the German crown, however, he mistrusted the inconstancy of his voters and rejected the request. Louis then negotiated with his father's ally Edward III of England to compete against the new German king Charles IV, a brother of John Henry of Luxembourg. Edward was elected 10 January 1348 at Lahnstein, but resigned just four months later. Finally the Wittelsbach party elected Günther von Schwarzburg as anti-king in 1349. Louis V successfully resisted Charles IV even though Günther von Schwarzburg's kingship failed. He managed to keep all possessions for the Wittelsbach dynasty until his death.

First Louis successfully repulsed an attack of Charles IV against Tyrol in 1347. In alliance with Denmark and Pomerania, he then drove back a revolt in 1348 - 1350 caused by the "False Waldemar," an imposter who claimed Brandenburg and got support from several cities and Charles IV. The civil war caused a huge devastation in Brandenburg. With the Treaty of Bautzen Louis finally came to terms with Charles IV and the conflict ended (16 February 1350).

In 1349 and 1351 Louis issued two decrees to relieve the consequences of the plague.

Louis released Brandenburg in December 1351 to his brothers Louis VI the Roman and Otto V the Bavarian in exchange for the sole rule of Upper Bavaria. Louis then combined the administration of Upper Bavaria and Tyrol. With the Golden Bull of 1356 only the Palatinate branch of the Wittelsbach family and Louis VI the Roman as Margrave of Brandenburg were invested with the electoral dignity, which caused a new conflict between Louis and Charles IV.

Louis had good relations with his Habsburg relatives and helped arbitrate conflicts of Albert II, Duke of Austria, with Switzerland. With the support of the Habsburg family, Louis and his consort Margarete were absolved from their excommunication in 1359. Louis suddenly died in September 1361 in Zorneding near Munich during a ride from Tyrol to Munich and was succeeded by his son Meinhard. He is buried at the Frauenkirche in Munich.

He was married two times.

1324: Margrete of Denmark (1305-1340), daughter of King Christopher II of Denmark
Elisabeth of Bavaria (1326?-1345?)

1342: Margarete Maultasch (1318-1369), daughter of Henry I of Bohemia
Hermann of Bavaria (Mar 1343-1360)
Meinhard III (9 February 1344 in Landshut-13 January 1363 Castle Tyrol), married 1359 with Margarete of Habsburg (1346-1366), daughter of Duke Albert II of Austria
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SOURCE: Wikipedia


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