Margaret of Bavaria (1363–1423)

Posthumous portrait of Margarete from the 16th century.

Margarete von Bayern (* 1363 probably in The Hague ; † 1423 in Dijon ) was the second youngest daughter of the Wittelsbach duke Albrecht I (Bavaria) of Straubing-Holland .

On April 12, 1385, at the double wedding of Cambrai, Margarete married the heir to the House of Burgundy , Johann Ohnefurcht, who was eight years her junior . The wedding was a major event of European stature and attracted over 20,000 guests. The French King Charles VI. was present. The couple had eight children, including Johann's successor, Philip the Good . Margarete regularly visited the French Queen Isabeau , who came from the Ingolstadt branch of the Wittelsbach family, and her niece Jakobäa , the daughter of her brother Wilhelm II.

After her husband was murdered in 1419, she encouraged her son to seek redress for the crime. She died in Dijon in 1423 and was buried in the church of the Champmol Charterhouse . Margarete was still able to follow the first steps her son took to gain the Dutch inheritance of Jacobea, but she did not live to see them renounced in the Hague Treaty .

progeny

Seven of the eight children from Margarete's marriage to Johann Ohnefurcht reached marriageable age.

• Marguerite (1393–1441) ⚭ 1) Louis de Valois, duc de Guyenne , 2) Arthur III. de Bretagne ,
• Marie († 1463) ⚭ 1406 Adolf II. , Count of Kleve and Mark,
• Isabelle (1395–1412) ⚭ Olivier de Châtillon , comte de Penthièvre,
• Philip III of Burgundy (1396–1467) ⚭ 1) Michelle de Valois , 2) Bonne d'Artois , 3) Isabel de Portugal ,
• Jeanne (1399-1406),
• Catherine (1400–1414) ⚭ Louis III. d'Anjou ,
• Anne (1404–1432) ⚭ John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford ,
• Agnès (1407–1476) ⚭ Charles I. de Bourbon .

literature

• Dorit-Maria Krenn, Joachim Wild : “princes in the distance”. The Duchy of Lower Bavaria-Straubing-Holland 1353–1425 (=  booklets on Bavarian history and culture . Volume 28 ). House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-927233-86-2 , p. 10 f., 47 .
• Edmund von Oefele:  Albrecht I, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 230 f.

Web links

Commons : Margarete von Bayern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mieke van Leeuwen-Canneman: Margaretha van Beieren. In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. January 14, 2013, accessed July 18, 2015 .