Luckau Treaty

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In the Luckau Treaty of December 1351, Ludwig V of Brandenburg gave the Mark Brandenburg to his brothers Ludwig VI. the Romans and Otto V abolished in order to be able to rule Upper Bavaria alone in return . Ludwig V then united the administration of Upper Bavaria and Tyrol. The Upper Bavarian line ended only twelve years later with the death of Meinhard , the son of the Brandenburg native.

On September 12, 1349, the patrimony of the deceased in 1347 the Holy Roman Emperor was Louis IV. , To the next Bayern also Holland , Hainaut , Friesland , Zeeland , Brandenburg and Tyrol were, among his six sons split Service. Ludwig's sons had administered their father's duchy together for only two years before they decided in the Landsberg Treaty to split it up into partial duchies. Upper Bavaria, Brandenburg and Tyrol fell to Ludwig V the Brandenburger and his younger brothers Ludwig VI. the Römer and Otto V, while Stephan II and his brothers Wilhelm I and Albrecht I received Lower Bavaria and the Dutch territories. Lower Bavaria was then divided again in the Regensburg Treaty in 1353 .