Sidonie of Bavaria

Sidonie von Bayern (born May 1, 1488 in Munich ; † March 29, 1505 ibid) from the Wittelsbach family was the eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich and his wife Kunigunde of Austria . She died as the bride of the future Elector Ludwig V of the Palatinate .

Life

Sidonie was born on May 1, 1488 in Munich. Her father Albrecht had been Duke of Bavaria-Munich since 1465, her mother Kunigunde the daughter of Emperor Friedrich III . At the age of fourteen months she was promised to Ludwig von der Pfalz, ten years his senior, the eldest son Palatine Count Philip . The marriage property should be 32,000, the morning gift 10,000 guilders . The castle and town of Möckmühl as well as the castle and town of Neuenstadt am Kocher near Heilbronn were awarded as Wittum .

Because of the close relatives of the bride and groom - both descended from Duke Ludwig II of Upper Bavaria and Ludwig's mother Margarete was a sister of Duke Georg of Bavaria-Landshut - a papal dispensation was necessary, which was granted in 1491. In February 1490 , Pope Innocent VIII delegated the necessary investigations to the Freising Bishop Sixtus and the latter to two Munich clergymen.

During the long engagement period - due to the young age of the bride, it was not possible to think about redeeming the vows until 1500 at the earliest - the Wittelsbachers from Palatinate also examined other options for Ludwig. In addition to the French Princess Suzanne de Bourbon-Beaujeu , Marie , the daughter of Duke Wilhelm von Jülich and Berg , was also in discussion. In 1501, the Roman-German King Maximilian , Kunigunde's brother, finally proposed a marriage between his niece Sidonie and Duke Karl von Geldern . This plan was also not carried out.

The engagement between Sidonie and Ludwig lasted until their death at the end of March 1505, and it was not resolved when Bayern-Munich and the Palatinate faced each other after the death of Duke George of Bavaria-Landshut in 1503 in the Landshut War of Succession . After a rapprochement between the two branches of the Wittelsbach family, Ludwig married Sidonie's younger sister Sibylle in 1511 .

Sidonie was buried in the Frauenkirche in Munich .

literature

Katrin Nina Marth: "To the laudable Hawss Beirn to pesserung, Aufnemung and expansion ...". The dynastic politics of the House of Bavaria at the turn of the late Middle Ages to the modern age . Dissertation, University of Regensburg 2009, p. 119-153 ( PDF ).

Remarks

↑ Marth, Dynastische Politik, p. 126 suspects that Albrecht wanted to ensure by the early engagement of his first child to a Wittelsbacher that Bavaria-Munich would remain in the Wittelsbach family if he died without any sons entitled to inherit.
↑ The agreement was recorded in writing and can be found in the Bavarian Main State Archives under Secret House Archive House Documents 825.
↑ Ernest Geis offers the corresponding documents: Two previously unprinted documents concerning the intended marriage of Princess Sidonia, Duke Albert IV's daughter, to Count Palatine Ludwig . In: Upper Bavarian Archive . tape 6 , 1844, pp. 422-426 .
↑ On Sibylle see Marth, Dynastische Politik, pp. 154–171.
↑ Helga Czerny: The death of the Bavarian dukes in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period 1347–1579. Preparations - dying - funeral ceremonies - burial - memoria (= series of publications on Bavarian national history . Volume 146 ). CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-10742-7 , p. 708 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2004).

personal data
SURNAME	Sidonie of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1505
Place of death	Munich

[1] Marth, Dynastische Politik, p. 126 suspects that Albrecht wanted to ensure by the early engagement of his first child to a Wittelsbacher that Bavaria-Munich would remain in the Wittelsbach family if he died without any sons entitled to inherit.

[2] The agreement was recorded in writing and can be found in the Bavarian Main State Archives under Secret House Archive House Documents 825.

[3] Ernest Geis offers the corresponding documents: Two previously unprinted documents concerning the intended marriage of Princess Sidonia, Duke Albert IV's daughter, to Count Palatine Ludwig . In: Upper Bavarian Archive . tape 6 , 1844, pp. 422-426 .

[4] On Sibylle see Marth, Dynastische Politik, pp. 154–171.

[5] Helga Czerny: The death of the Bavarian dukes in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period 1347–1579. Preparations - dying - funeral ceremonies - burial - memoria (= series of publications on Bavarian national history . Volume 146 ). CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-10742-7 , p. 708 (also dissertation, University of Munich 2004).