Maddalena Visconti

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Maddalena Visconti (* around 1366; † August 24, 1404 in Burghausen ), one of the hundred thousand guilder daughters of the Milanese city lord Bernabò Visconti , was Duke Friedrich's Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut as the second wife . After Friedrich's death, she and his brothers and later his nephews took over government responsibility for their underage son Heinrich .

Maddalena was born around 1366 as the daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice della Scala. Her older sister Taddea was with Duke Stephan III. married from Bavaria, her older brother Marco with Stephan's niece Elisabeth and Maddalena also married a Bavarian Wittelsbacher : on September 2, 1381 she became the second wife of Elisabeth's father, Duke Friedrich. Her dowry , like her sister's, was a hundred thousand guilders . Maddalena and Friedrich had five children together, of whom the daughters Elisabeth and Magdalena and the son Heinrich reached adulthood.

Friedrich administered the Lower Bavarian part of the Duchy of Bavaria, from which the partial duchy of Bavaria-Landshut emerged when the state was divided in 1392 . When he died unexpectedly in December 1393, the seven-year-old Heinrich became his successor. Maddalena had to accept that Stephan and Johann , the brothers of her late husband, would take over the guardianship of their son. Disagreement between the brothers - in the winter of 1394/95 Stephan and Johann even waged war against each other - and the resistance of the Lower Bavarian countryside prevented a division of Bavaria-Landshut.

Maddalena died in 1404. She is buried in the Raitenhaslach monastery .

literature

  • 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 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2009).
  • Karin Kaltwasser: Duke and nobility in Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. the rich (1393-1450) . Dissertation, University of Regensburg 2004 ( PDF ).
  • Hans Patze : The Wittelsbacher in medieval politics in Europe . In: Journal for Bavarian State History . tape 44 , 1981, pp. 33-79 , especially 72-73 ( online ).

Remarks

  1. Because of the amount of her dowry so described by Benno Hubensteiner, Bayerische Geschichte , Munich 1952, p. 126. Likewise Karin Kaltwasser, duke and nobility in Bavaria-Landshut under Heinrich XVI. dem Reichen (1393–1450) , p. 8, note 57 and p. 40, note 201.