Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine

Margaret of Bavaria ( born November 7, 1456 Amberg, † 1501 in Heidelberg) was a princess of Bavaria- Landshut and by marriage Electress of the Palatinate.

Life

Margaret was a daughter of Duke Louis IX. the Rich of Bavaria -Landshut (1417-1479) from his marriage to Amalia (1436-1501), daughter of the Saxon Elector Frederick II

She married in 1474, in the context of consuming committed celebrations in Amberg ( " Amberger Wedding" ) the later to become Elector Philipp the upright of the Palatinate ( 1448-1508 ), who had knocked out before marriage candidates as Mary of Burgundy and Anna, heiress of the county Katzenelenbogen. At the wedding, more than 1,000 guests were in attendance, including 14 ruling princes. There large quantities of food were consumed, in addition to 110,000 liters of wine and 10,000 chickens.

Two years after the marriage was Philip Elector Palatine. In 1482 Margaret fled from the plague of Heidelberg Castle Winzingen where they brought the later to become Elector Frederick II to the world.

Thanks to his wife Philip had a good relationship with her ​​brother Duke George the Rich, whose children were married in 1499. The dynastic union was the starting point of political and military cooperation Bavaria - Landshut and the Palatinate. George, who had no male descendants, began his sister's son, while his son finally testamentary heir.

Progeny

From their marriage, Margaret had the following children:

  • Louis V (1478-1544), Elector of the Palatinate
  • Philipp (1480-1541), Bishop of Freising and Naumburg
  • Ruprecht (1481-1504)
  • Frederick II (1482-1556), Elector of the Palatinate
  • Elisabeth (1483-1522)
  • Georg (1486-1529), Bishop of Speyer
  • Heinrich (1486-1552), bishop of Utrecht, Freising and Worms
  • Johann III. (1487-1538), Bishop of Regensburg
  • Amalie (1490-1524)
  • Barbara (1491-1505)
  • Helene (1493-1524)
  • Wolfgang (1494-1558), Count Palatine of Neumarkt, governor of the Upper Palatinate
  • Otto Heinrich ( * / † 1496 )
  • Catherine (1499-1526), abbess in Neuburg am Neckar
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