Anne de Bourbon

Anne de Bourbon (* around 1380; † 1408 in Paris ) from the House of Bourbon was the first wife of Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and the mother of his son of the same name .

Anne was born around 1380 as the daughter of Count Jean de Bourbon of the Marche and his wife Catherine de Vendôme. Christine de Pizan counted her among the nine most exemplary women in France in the Livre de la Cité des Dames . Her younger sister Charlotte later married King Janus of Cyprus . Anne herself first married Jean de Berry , the Count of Montpensier and son of the Duke of Berry . After his death, the French Queen Isabeau , the sister of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, called Anne and Charlotte to her court. On October 1, 1402, Anne married Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, the queen's brother. Her dowry was a proud 130,000 francs, and her husband's annual pension was increased from 5,000 to 12,000 francs.

At the beginning of 1403 Ludwig traveled to Bavaria without her and only returned to Paris after the birth of his son, who was himself called Ludwig . Little Ludwig was crippled and was later called Ludwig the Hunchback, his younger brother Jean, who was probably born in 1405 or 1406, died early. Duke Ludwig, who was a member of the Privy Council, gained political importance after the assassination of the Duke of Orléans in late autumn 1407 and in 1408 also took over the management of the Dauphin's court . Anne died in 1408 at the age of 28 and was buried in the Jacobin convent in Paris . Her husband married her distant relative Catherine d'Alençon in 1413 , whom he left alone in France on his return to Bavaria in 1415.

The initially planned transfer of the mortal remains of Anne and her son Jean to Ingolstadt did not take place, only their heart is in Ingolstadt's Liebfrauenmünster .

literature

• Claudia Märtl : France. Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1368–1447) and his sister Isabeau at the French royal court . In: Alois Schmid , Katharina Weigand (Hrsg.): Bavaria in the middle of Europe. From the early Middle Ages to the 20th century . CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52898-8 , p. 107-120 , especially 114-116 .
• Beatrix Schönewald: The Duchesses of Bavaria-Ingolstadt . In: Collection sheet of the historical association Ingolstadt . tape 113 , 2004, pp. 35-54 , especially 47-48 .
• Theodor Straub : Duke Ludwig the Bearded of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and his relations with France in the period from 1391 to 1415 (=  Munich historical studies. Department of Bavarian History . Volume 7 ). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1965 (also dissertation, Munich 1966).
• Theodor Straub: Bavaria under the sign of the divisions and partial duchies . In: Max Spindler , Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): Handbook of Bavarian History . 2nd Edition. tape II . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 196-287 , especially 238, 245 .
• Theodor Straub: The five Ingolstadt duchesses . In: Bayern-Ingolstadt, Bayern-Landshut. 1392-1506. Splendor and misery of a division . Ingolstadt City Archives, Ingolstadt 1992, ISBN 3-932113-06-3 , p. 43-50 , especially 46-47 .