Sophia of Bavaria
Euphemia Sophie of Bavaria ( Czech Žofie Bavorská; * 1376, † 1425 in Bratislava ) from the Munich branch of the House of Wittelsbach, the second wife of the Czech king Wenceslas IV was
Sophie was the only daughter of Duke John II of Bavaria -Munich and his wife Catherine of Gorizia. She grew up at his older brother Frederick of Bavaria -Landshut on the Trausnitz. 1388 became Friedrich, who likes hunting, as well as the 1400 reigning as King of the Romans Wenceslaus, his niece to Prague. The marriage between the twelve-year Sophie and composed of fifteen years his senior, widowed after the death of their relatives Johanna of Bavaria King took place in Prague on May 2, 1389.
Perhaps because this marriage as between Wenzel and Johanna had no children before, Sophie was only eleven years later, crowned on March 15, 1400, to the Queen of Bohemia. Her husband, the king, did not participate in the coronation. Sophie often stayed in the lands on which they had received as dowry. Since 1402 she clung to the teachings of the preacher Jan Hus, she also defended in court a long time. 1419, ahead of Wenceslas death, so gave her even before Pope Martin V. heresy.
After the death of Wenceslas 1419 Sophie was appointed by King Sigismund, half brother of her deceased husband, regent of Bohemia, in the meantime raged the Hussite Wars. After trying in vain to achieve the peace, but they gave up this office. Sigismund was crowned King of Bohemia, Sophie retreated to Pressburg. She died on 26 September in 1425. Sophie of Bavaria was buried in Bratislava Martin.
According to legend, the later bridge Saint John Nepomuk was 1393 Sophie's confessor. Supposedly Nepomuk was not tortured so and overthrown by that of her father, Charles IV built Charles Bridge into the Vltava river, because he had turned against Wenceslas church politics, but because he had refused to break the seal of confession and tell the king what his wife Sophie had confessed to him. John of Nepomuk was built in 1721 blessed and canonized in 1729. He is now regarded as the patron saint of Bohemia and Bavaria.