Johann I (Bavaria)

Johann the child (born November 29, 1329 , † December 21, 1340 in Landshut ) ruled the Wittelsbach sub-duchy of Lower Bavaria for a year from 1339 to 1340 after the death of his father Heinrich XIV .

Life

Johann was the only child of Duke Heinrich XIV. Of Bavaria (as Heinrich II. Duke of Lower Bavaria) and Margarete of Bohemia, a daughter of King John the Blind . He was betrothed to Elisabeth, a daughter of the Polish king Casimir I , as a child in 1335 . This engagement and another engagement with a daughter of Count Palatine Rudolf II were dissolved and Johann married on April 18, 1339 in Munich to Anna, the daughter of Ludwig of Bavaria . Associated with the marriage was a peace agreement between Heinrich von Niederbayern and Ludwig the Bavarian. When Duke Heinrich died in September 1339, Ludwig took over the guardianship of his son-in-law.

After Johann's death in December of the following year at the age of only eleven, the Lower Bavarian part-duchy fell to Ludwig the Bavarian, who already ruled the part-duchy of Upper Bavaria and was thus able to reunite the two duchies after their division in 1255. Johann the child was buried in the Seligenthal monastery.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Foundations of Medieval Genealogy: Medieval Lands: Bavaria, Dukes. Ch. 11 B ( Memento of the original dated February 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed June 24, 2011 
2. ^ Sigmund von Riezler : History of Bavaria. Volume 2, Scientia, Aalen 1964, p. 431 (reprint of the Gotha 1880 edition)
3. ^ Sigmund von Riezler: History of Bavaria. Volume 2, Scientia, Aalen 1964, p. 449 (reprint of the Gotha 1880 edition)

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry II	Duke of Lower Bavaria 1339–1340	Ludwig IV.