Cambrai double wedding

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The double wedding of Cambrai took place on April 12, 1385 in Cambrai . The twenty-year-old Wilhelm , the eldest son of Duke Albrecht I of Straubing-Holland , married Margarete , the eldest daughter of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy . Their brother, who later became Duke Johann Ohnefurcht , married Wilhelm's sister, who was also called Margarete .

The wedding was a major event of European standing, to which more than 20,000 guests were invited. The lavish celebrations, at which the French King Charles VI. took part lasted for eight days.

  • Wilhelm of Bavaria (historicizing representation)

  • Margaret of Burgundy

  • Johann Ohnefurcht and Margarete of Bavaria

literature

  • Dorit-Maria Krenn, Joachim Wild : “princes in the distance”. The Duchy of Lower Bavaria-Straubing-Holland 1353–1425 (=  booklets on Bavarian history and culture . Volume 28 ). House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-927233-86-2 , p. 9-11 .
  • Michael Menzel : Europe's Bavarian Years. A sketch of the northeast and west of the empire in the 14th and 15th centuries . In: Hubertus Seibert (ed.): Ludwig the Bavarian (1314-1347). Empire and rule in transition . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7954-2757-3 , pp. 237-262 , especially 258-259 .
  • Hans Patze : The Wittelsbacher in medieval politics in Europe . In: Journal for Bavarian State History . tape 44 , 1981, pp. 33-79 , especially 71-72 ( online ).
  • Theodor Straub : The Niederbayern-Straubing-Holland sideline . In: Max Spindler , Andreas Kraus (Ed.): Das Alte Bayern. The territorial state from the end of the 12th century to the end of the 18th century (=  Handbook of Bavarian History . Volume II ). 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 217-222 , especially 219 .
  • Joachim Wild: Holland. The Wittelsbacher on the North Sea (1346–1436) . 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. 92-106 , especially 101 .