Ludmilla of Bohemia

Ludmilla of Bohemia (Czech: Ludmila, * 1170, † August 4, 1240 in Landshut ) was a Bohemian princess, and through her second marriage Duchess of Bavaria.

Life

Ludmilla was a daughter of Duke Frederick of Bohemia, and his wife Elizabeth of Hungary. She married in 1184 Count Adalbert ( Albert) III. of arc ( 1165-1197 ). With this, they had three sons with whom the Counts of extinct arc:

• Berthold IV († 1218 fallen), Count of arc, married Cunegonde of Hirschberg
• Adalbert IV († 1242 ), Count of arc married, Richza of Dillingen
• Diepoldsberg († 1219 ), was a clergyman in Regensburg

In 1204 married Ludmilla Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria, a former enemy of her first husband. According to legend, had this to seduce Ludmilla, but this but requested a promise of marriage. Behind a curtain of her bedchamber, she had three figures paint, behind which three knights hid. When Louis was the promise of marriage, these three knights were eventually produced as witnesses. With his marriage Ludwig won the King Ottokar I of Bohemia, the cousin of his wife, an ally and could thus offer the spreading Babenbergers forehead.

The then underage sons of Ludmilla's first marriage, Louis was a good father. After Albert IV died in 1242 without heirs of arc, the count- sheets ( with their white and blue lozenge emblem ) on his half-brother Otto on and remained from then on in the hands of Wittelsbach. The belonging to her dowry Künische Mountains 1273 fell back to the Bohemian crown.

Ludmilla had with her ​​second husband, a son, Otto II the Illustrious, (1206-1253), Duke of Bavaria.

After the death of her husband Ludmilla founded in 1232 the monastery Seligenthal as grave lay the Wittelsbach family, where she lived from then on, and was buried here.