Sidonie of Bavaria
Sidonie von Bayern ( born May 1, 1488 Munich, † March 29, 1505 ibid ) from the house of Wittelsbach was the eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria -Munich and his wife Gwendolyn of Austria. She died as a bride of the later Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate.
Life
Sidonie was born on 1 May 1488 in Munich. Her father was Albrecht since 1465 Duke of Bavaria -Munich, her mother Gwendolyn, the daughter of Emperor Frederick III. At the age of fourteen months she was promised the ten- year-older Ludwig of the Palatinate, the eldest son of Count Palatine Philip. The dowry was 32,000, the dowry amount to 10,000 guilders. As a jointure her castle and town Moeckmuehl and castle and town New City were awarded the cooker at Heilbronn.
Because of the close relationship of the couple - both came from the Upper Bavarian duke Ludwig II and Louis mother Margaret was a sister of Duke George of Bavaria- Landshut - a papal dispensation was necessary, which was already granted in 1491. The necessary investigations had Pope Innocent VIII delegates in February 1490 to the Bishop of Freising Sixtus and these two Munich clergy.
During the long period of engagement - because of the young age of the bride was the earliest to think of a redemption of the promise of marriage from 1500 - checked the Palatinate Wittelsbach other options for Ludwig. In addition to the French princess Suzanne de Bourbon- Beaujeu was Marie, the daughter of Duke William of Jülich and Berg, talking. 1501 finally struck the Roman-German King Maximilian, Kunigunde brother, from a marriage of his niece Sidonie with Duke Charles of funds. This plan was not realized.
The betrothal between Sidonie and Louis had until her death in late March 1505 inventory, it was also not solved, when Bayern Munich and the Palatinate in 1503 were hostile to the Landshut War of Succession after the death of Duke George of Bavaria- Landshut. After it had been a rapprochement between the two branches of the House of Wittelsbach, Ludwig married in 1511 Sidonie's younger sister Sibylle.
Sidonie was buried in the Munich Frauenkirche.