Elisabetta Visconti

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Elisabetta Visconti (* 1374 ; † February 2, 1432 ) was Duchess of Bavaria-Munich .

Life and accomplishments

Elisabetta was born in 1374 as the daughter of the Milanese city lord Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice della Scala . The wedding with Duke Ernst von Wittelsbach and von Bayern-Munich took place on February 24, 1396 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm . After the wedding, the couple could only stay in Munich for a year and a half due to unrest and resided in Wolfratshausen from December 24, 1397 to June 1403 .

The son Albrecht (later Bavarian Duke Albrecht III ) was born in Wolfratshausen in 1401. The other children very likely saw the light of day in the Alter Hof in Munich, Beatrix around 1403, Elisabeth around 1406 and Amalie around 1408.

The dowry of the "Hundred Thousand Gulden daughter" of the Milanese city lord Bernabò Visconti, Elisabetta Visconti, was a little less than that of her sisters with the amount of 75,000 guilders and made a further contribution to the reduction of Bavarian debts.

Elisabetta Visconti was involved in building work in many places that were under her control, had the old castle in Odelzhausen renovated and preferred to stay there in the last years of her life.

She probably died on February 2, 1432 in Odelzhausen or Munich and her grave is in the crypt of the Munich Frauenkirche .

literature

  • Daniela Crescenzio: Italian Walks in Munich, Volume III - Italian Women in Munich , 1st edition. IT-INERARIO, Rosenheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-9813046-6-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Because of the amount of her dowry so described by Benno Hubensteiner, Bayerische Geschichte , Munich 1952, p. 126. Likewise Karin Kaltwasser, duke and nobility in Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. dem Reichen (1393–1450) , p. 8, note 57 and p. 40, note 201.
personal data
SURNAME Visconti, Elisabetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Visconti, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Bavaria-Munich
DATE OF BIRTH 1374
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1432