Treaty of Pavia (1329)

In the House Treaty of Pavia the territorial duchy of Bavaria was divided on 4 August 1329.

Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian joined Rudolf II the Blind and Ruprecht I. Red, the sons of his brother Rudolf, the Rhine Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate from. Emperor Louis kept to himself and his heirs Upper Bavaria and smaller, north of Regensburg situated districts.

In the House Treaty of Pavia was controlled such that the right of election as emperor ( the cure ) should be alternately performed by the Palatinate and Bavarian Wittelsbach; later in the Golden Bull of this law, however, was alone awarded the Palatinate line, which was after the Reformation basis of disputes in the causa palatine: As of 1623, the Electorate was the Bavarian line, the conflict was resolved in 1648 by Kurwürden for both lines.

After the division of the old Bavarian Nordgau was initially called the Land of the Palatinate and Bavaria. Since it was geographically higher than the Rhenish Palatinate, became common from the 15th century, the name "Upper Palatinate " one.

The house contract was the extinction of the ludovizischen line open again in 1777. At that time, another passage in the House Treaty came to the course, said that the extinction of a line in the male line, the other should inherit its territories and rights. The legacy of Elector Maximilian III. Joseph went to Karl Theodor of the Palatinate -Neuburg line -Sulzbach, who was Elector of the now reunified Pfalz- Bavaria. In this succession, Karl Theodor convened specifically to the House Treaty of Pavia.