Cologne arbitration award

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The Cologne arbitration award of the Roman-German King Maximilian I at the Reichstag in Cologne on July 30, 1505 ended the Landshut War of Succession .

prehistory

The Landshut War of Succession from 1503 to 1505 was triggered by a dispute over the succession in the Bavarian duchy of Bavaria-Landshut when the last duke there, George the Rich , died without male descendants. The main participants were the Wittelsbacher -Linien Bayern-Landshut with Georg's heir daughter Elisabeth and her husband Ruprecht of the Palatinate and the Duke of Bavaria-Munich as well as King Maximilian I from the House of Habsburg . The fortunes of war had leaned towards Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich. However, the first peace negotiations on December 10, 1504 in Mittenwald failed. On January 23, 1505, the Palatine general Georg von Wisbeck was defeated by the Bavarian troops near Gangkofen , and on February 9 an armistice came into force. In the run-up to the Cologne arbitration, there had already been secret agreements between Innsbruck court marshal Paul von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn and Duke Albrecht IV towards the end of March / beginning of April 1505.

Cologne arbitration award

On June 14, 1505, in the run-up to the Cologne Reichstag, the official arbitration negotiations on the division of the Lower Bavarian heritage began. At the Reichstag in Cologne on July 30, 1505, the following result was announced:

The main inheritance falls to the Duke of Bayern-Munich . The Duchy of Bavaria is thus reunited after the late medieval partitions.
The two grandchildren of Duke Georg, Ottheinrich and Philipp , receive the Young Palatinate , a fragmented area from the Upper Danube via Franconia to the northern Upper Palatinate . Neuburg an der Donau becomes the capital of the new state . The rest of the area goes to the Munich line of the Wittelsbach family .
The area around Kufstein , Kitzbühel and Rattenberg falls to Maximilian I himself as the price of his mediation. The Zillertal and Mondseeland also go to the Habsburgs.
The imperial city of Nuremberg gains significant areas east of the city, including the offices of Lauf , Hersbruck and Altdorf .

literature

Rudolf Ebneth, Peter Schmid (Ed.): The Landshut War of Succession. At the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age. House of cards collective graphic services, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-88246-266-3 .
Reinhard Stauber : The Landshut War of Succession - Self-Destruction of the House of Wittelsbach? In: Jörg Peltzer , Bernd Schneidmüller , Stefan Weinfurter , Alfried Wieczorek (eds.): The Wittelsbachers and the Electoral Palatinate in the Middle Ages. A success-story? Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2645-3 , pp. 207-230.

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