Elisabeth of Bavaria (1383–1442)

Elisabeth of Bavaria

Elisabeth von Bayern-Landshut (* 1383 at Trausnitz Castle , Landshut ; † November 13, 1442 in Ansbach ), called the "Schöne Else" . She is the ancestral mother of all Brandenburg electors from the house of Hohenzollern, all Prussian kings and German emperors.

Elisabeth was a daughter of Duke Friedrichs von Bayern-Landshut and his second wife Maddalena Visconti . She married Friedrich VI on September 18, 1401 . von Hohenzollern , Burgrave of Nuremberg , who in 1415 as Frederick I was raised to Margrave of Brandenburg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

During the long periods of absence of her husband, who went to Italy , Hungary , to the Council of Constance and was active in the imperial service as imperial administrator during the absence of King Sigismund I, as well as imperial governor during the Hussite Wars, she represented him cleverly and energetically despite all kinds of things Challenges. Through her third son, Albrecht Achilles , she became the ancestral mother of the Hohenzollern royal family of Prussia and the German emperors.

On the former Berliner Siegesallee, where the ruling margraves of Brandenburg were erected as a larger than life statue, Elisabeth was the only woman to be considered in the form of a relief.

progeny

She had ten children with Friedrich:

• Elisabeth (1403–1449)

⚭ 1. 1418/20 Duke Ludwig II of Liegnitz and Brieg (1380 / 5–1436)

⚭ 2. 1438/39 Duke Wenzel von Teschen (1413 / 18–1474)

• Johann the Alchemist (1406–1464), renounced the firstborn rights in 1437, Margrave of Kulmbach-Bayreuth

⚭ 1416 Princess Barbara of Saxony-Wittenberg (1405–1465)

• Cecilia (1405–1449)

⚭ 1423 Duke Wilhelm I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1392–1482)

• Margaret (1410-1465)

⚭ 1. 1423 Duke Albrecht V of Mecklenburg (1397–1423)

⚭ 2. 1441 Duke Ludwig VIII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1403–1445)

⚭ 3. 1446 Count Martin von Waldenfels († 1471)

• Magdalena (1412-1454)

⚭ 1426 Duke Friedrich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1418–1478)

• Friedrich II. Eisenzahn (1413–1471), Elector of Brandenburg

⚭ 1446 Princess Catherine of Saxony (1421–1476)

• Albrecht III. Achilles (1414–1486), Elector of Brandenburg

⚭ 1. 1446 Princess Margarete of Baden (1431–1457)

⚭ 2. 1458 Princess Anna of Saxony (1437–1512)

• Sophie (1416-1417)
• Dorothea (1420-1491)

⚭ 1432 Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg (1417–1477)

• Friedrich (III.) Der Fette (1424–1463), Lord of the Altmark 1447

⚭ 1449 Princess Agnes of Pomerania (1436–1512)

literature

• Bernhard Glasauer: Duke Heinrich XVI. (1393–1450) the empire of Bavaria-Landshut. Territorial politics between dynasty and empire (=  Munich contributions to historical science . Volume 5 ). Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8316-0899-7 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2009).
• Marita A. Panzer: Wittelsbach women. Princely daughters of a European dynasty . Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2419-5 , p. 37-48 .

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