Duchy of Lower Bavaria
The Bavarian partial duchy of Lower Bavaria existed from 1255 to 1340. In the Bavarian division of 1255 , the brothers Heinrich XIII. and Ludwig II , after they had ruled over all of Bavaria and the Palatinate near Rhine since the death of their father Otto II in 1253 , their territory due to differences of opinion on March 28th. Ludwig the Strict received the Palatinate electoral dignity including the associated domain and the Duchy of Upper Bavaria , Heinrich XIII. the Duchy of Lower Bavaria with the residential city of Landshut . Under Heinrich's descendants, the domains were temporarily divided (Burghausen, Deggendorf), while the Archdiocese of Salzburg gained independence.
After the death of Duke Johann I in 1340, Ludwig the Bavarian reunited Lower Bavaria and Upper Bavaria.
Occasionally the territory of the Dukes Stephan II , Wilhelm I and Albrecht I between the Landsberg Treaty of 1349 and the Regensburg Treaty of 1353, the territory ruled by Stephan II between 1353 and 1363 and 1375, that of his son Friedrich area administered between 1376 and the division of 1392 or the partial duchy of Bavaria-Landshut existing between 1392 and 1503 or 1505 called Lower Bavaria .
List of the dukes of Lower Bavaria
Although the Bavarian dukes are generally numbered regardless of where they ruled, there is an exception for the Lower Bavarian dukes named Heinrich: They are numbered according to their order in Lower Bavaria. So is Heinrich XIII. of Bavaria also Heinrich I of Lower Bavaria.
| Surname | Reign | ancestry |
|---|---|---|
| Henry XIII. (I.) | 1253–1255 Duke of Bavaria, 1255–1290 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Otto II. |
| Otto III. | 1290–1312 Duke of Lower Bavaria, 1305–1307 King of Hungary | Son of Heinrich XIII. (I.) |
| Ludwig III. | 1290–1296 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Heinrich XIII. (I.) |
| Stephan I. | 1290–1310 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Heinrich XIII. (I.) |
| Henry XIV (II.) | 1310–1339 Duke of Lower Bavaria, until 1312 under the tutelage of Ludwig of Bavaria | Son of Stephen I. |
| Otto IV. | 1310–1334 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Stephen I. |
| Henry XV. (III.) | 1312–1333 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Otto III. |
| Johann I. | 1339–1340 Duke of Lower Bavaria | Son of Henry XIV (II.) |
Timeline
The Upper Bavarian dukes are shown in red, the Lower Bavarian dukes in yellow and the entire Bavarian dukes in orange.
literature
- Max Spindler , Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): Handbook of Bavarian history . 2nd Edition. 2nd volume. CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 72-75, 82-88, 91-96, 100-103, 106-109, 120-125, and the like. a .
- Wilhelm Störmer : The Wittelsbach state divisions in the late Middle Ages (1255–1505) . In: Suzanne Bäumler, Evamaria Brockhoff, Michael Henker (eds.): By Kaisers Gnaden. 500 years of Pfalz-Neuburg . House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-937974-01-6 , p. 17-23 .