Eberhard (Bavaria)

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Eberhard von Bayern (* around 912; † around 940 (?)) Was the eldest son of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and his wife Judith of Friuli . He succeeded his father as Duke of Bavaria in 937 , but was deposed and banished by King Otto I as early as 938 .

Bavaria under Arnulf I.

Eberhard, Duke of Bavaria

As early as 933/934 Eberhard was to receive the Lombard royal crown in a (albeit unsuccessful) Italian campaign , which had been offered to him by the northern Italian nobility due to his Unruochinger ancestry on his mother's side. In 935 his father Arnulf designated him as his successor with the approval and homage of the Bavarian aristocracy. Eberhard is likely to have married his wife Liutgard around the same time.

Duke Eberhard and Otto I.

After Arnulf's death in 937, Eberhard became Duke of Bavaria, but soon got into conflict with King Otto I , who did not want to accept Bavaria's special position in the Imperial Union, which had been guaranteed by the contract. Otto broke the Treaty of 921 between Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and Henry I was closed. In two campaigns in spring and autumn 938 Otto Eberhard deposed and banished him. Instead of him, Eberhard's uncle Berthold was appointed Bavarian Duke by Otto after he had renounced the exercise of important privileges such as the right to be appointed bishop and the administration of the imperial estate in Bavaria. Eberhard's brother Arnulf (II.) , Who had supported his brother, was pardoned by Otto and installed in the newly created office of Count Palatine of Bavaria.

There is nothing certain about the further fate of Eberhard. His son Wigfried became Bishop of Verdun in 959, his daughter Wichburg first married Count Pilgrim from the Pilgrimid family , after whose death the Bavarian Count Palatine Hartwig I.

Eberhard's date of death is neither known nor his place of exile. Various theories assume that he either died around 940 or fled to the Hungarians and from there in 953 established a connection between the princes who rebelled against Otto and the Hungarians.

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predecessor Office successor
Arnulf Duke of Bavaria
937-938 		Berthold
personal data
SURNAME Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eberhard of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Bavaria (937-938)
DATE OF BIRTH at 912
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: around 940