Ludmilla of Bohemia (around 1170)

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Oil painting in Seligenthal Abbey

Ludmilla of Böhmen (Czech: Ludmila ; * around 1170; † August 4, 1240 in Landshut ) was a Bohemian princess and by her second marriage Duchess of Bavaria .

Ludmilla was a daughter of Duke Frederick of Bohemia and his wife Elisabeth of Hungary. She married Count Adalbert (Albert) III in 1184 . von Bogen (1165–1197). With this she had three sons, with whom the Counts of Bogen died out:

  • Berthold IV. († 1218, fallen), Count von Bogen, married Kunigunde von Hirschberg
  • Adalbert IV. († 1242), Count von Bogen, married Richza von Dillingen
  • Diepold († 1219) was a clergyman in Regensburg

In 1204 Ludmilla married Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria , a former enemy of her first husband. According to legend, this Ludmilla wanted to seduce Ludmilla, but she asked him to promise her marriage. On a curtain in her bedroom she had three figures painted, behind which three knights were hiding. When Ludwig made the marriage vows, these three knights came forward as witnesses.

With his marriage, Ludwig won King Ottokar I of Bohemia , his wife's cousin, as an ally and was able to stand up to the spreading Babenbergers . With her second husband, Ludmilla had another son, Otto II (1206–1253), who later became Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine .

Ludwig was a good father to the then underage sons from Ludmilla's first marriage. After Albert IV von Bogen died in 1242 without an heir, the county of Bogen (with its white and blue diamond coat of arms ) passed to his half-brother Otto II of Bavaria and from then on remained in the hands of the Wittelsbach family . The Künische Gebirge , which was part of their dowry, fell back to the Bohemian Crown in 1273.

After the death of her husband, Ludmilla founded the Seligenthal monastery in 1232 as a burial place for the Wittelsbach family, where she lived and is buried from then on.

In 2015 a street in a new development in the west of the city of Straubing was named after Ludmilla. Straubing is the administrative seat of the Straubing-Bogen district .

Web links

Commons : Ludmilla of Böhmen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ City council resolution of January 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Ludmilla of Bohemia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludmilla von Kelheim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian princess and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH around 1170
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1240
Place of death Landshut