Constance League

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The enemies of Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt allied in the Konstanz League.

The Konstanz League was a defensive alliance of the opponents of Duke Ludwig the Bearded of Bavaria-Ingolstadt . It was founded on July 8, 1415 at the Council of Constance and goes back to the parakeet society founded the year before by Ludwig's cousin Heinrich the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut .

In addition to Heinrich, the members of the Konstanz League were the Dukes of Bavaria-Munich , Ernst and Wilhelm , Count Palatine Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt , Burgrave Friedrich von Nürnberg and Elector Ludwig von der Pfalz . They pledged to provide mutual assistance and used their influence in the empire to harm Ludwig.

The Roman-German King Sigismund had an open ear for the concerns of the league members and allowed any lawsuit against their opponent Ludwig von Bayern-Ingolstadt. It even happened that they participated as assessors in trials against the Ingolstadt. The Konstanz League also played a key role in the expansion of the Bavarian War in 1421, which gained nationwide importance through the intervention of the Dukes of Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Munich after Ludwig attacked Neustadt an der Donau .

A change of policy Sigismund, who had fallen out with Friedrich von Nürnberg, reduced the influence of the Konstanz League on the king. It only played a larger role again in 1426 when its armistice with Ludwig expired, when Sigismund offered its Bavarian members the prospect of an enfeoffment with the Straubinger Ländchen . The committee of the league then suggested a tripartite division of the Straubing area in Nuremberg in May 1426. On September 17, the league's arbitration board announced that the area would later be divided into four.

When Ludwig von Bayern-Ingolstadt was also promised a part of the Straubinger Ländchen by the king, the league extended the armistice with the Ingolstadt. In 1427 there was a dispute between the Munich dukes and Heinrich von Bayern-Landshut, who in the eyes of his cousins ​​did not do enough against Tristram Zenger . In early summer there was a rapprochement between Ernst, Wilhelm and Ludwig, the opponents of the league. The Konstanzer Liga lost more and more of its importance and is soon no longer comprehensible in the sources.

literature

  • Michaela Bleicher: The Duchy of Lower Bavaria-Straubing in the Hussite Wars. Everyday life and warfare as reflected in the land clerk accounts . Dissertation, Regensburg 2006, p. 43, 54, 62 ( online ).
  • 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 , p. 119 with note 2, 134–140 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2009).
  • Karin Kaltwasser: Duke and nobility in Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. the rich (1393-1450) . Dissertation, Regensburg 2004, p. 159, 174, 180, 184 ( online ).
  • Theodor Straub : Bavaria under the sign of the divisions and partial duchies (1347–1450) . In: Max Spindler , Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): Handbook of Bavarian History . 2nd Edition. tape II . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , p. 254-259 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Straub, Teilungen und Teilducht leads , p. 254.
  2. ↑ See Kaltwasser, Herzog und Adel in Bayern-Landshut , pp. 157, 159.
  3. ↑ See Straub, Teilungen und Teilducht leads , p. 262.
  4. ↑ See Straub, Teilungen und Teilherzogtenschaften , pp. 257, 282.
  5. ↑ See Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Fürstensachen 1322 1/3 , fol. 9v, 25r.
  6. ↑ See Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Fürstensachen 1322 1/3 , fol. 12v.
  7. ↑ See Straub, Teilungen und Teilherzogtenschaften , p. 270 and Lerchenfeld, Landständische Freibriefe , p. CCLIX ff.