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Ernest of Bavaria-Munich (
German : Ernst, Herzog von Bayern-München ), (
Munich , 1373 – 2 July 1438 in Munich), from 1397 Duke of
Bavaria-Munich .
Biography
Ernest was a son of
John II and ruled the duchy of Bavaria-Munich together with his brother
William III .
He restrained uprisings of the citizenry of Munich in 1396 and 1410 and forced his uncle
Stephen III to confine his reign to
Bavaria-Ingolstadt in 1402. Afterwards Ernest still fought several times successfully against the dukes of Bavaria-
Ingolstadt Stephen III and his son
Louis VII the Bearded as ally of
Henry XVI of Bavaria -
Landshut . He was a member of the
Parakeet Society and of the
League of Constance .
After the extinction of the
Wittelsbach dukes of
Bavaria-Straubing , counts of
Holland and
Hainaut , Ernest and his brother William struggled with Henry and Louis but finally received half of Bavaria-Straubing including the city of Straubing in 1429.
As ally of the
House of Luxembourg Ernest backed his deposed brother in law
Wenceslaus against the new king
Rupert of the older branch of his own
Wittelsbach dynasty as well as Wenceslaus' brother
Sigismund in his wars against the supporters of
Jan Hus . This led to devastations in Northern Bavaria until 1434.
When his son
Albert III
married secretly the maid
Agnes Bernauer in 1432, Ernest ordered her murdered. She was accused of witchcraft and thrown into the River
Danube and drowned. The civil war with his son finally ended with a reconciliation. He is buried in the
Frauenkirche in
Munich .
Family and children
Ernest married, in
Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , on 26 January 1395 to
Elisabetta Visconti , daughter of
Bernabò Visconti and had the following children:
Albert III, Duke of Bavaria (23 March 1401, Munich–29 February 1460, Munich)
Beatrix (c. 1403–12 March 1447,
Neumarkt ), married to:
1424 in
Ortenburg Count
Hermann III of Cilli ;
1428 in
Riedenburg Count Palatine
John of Neumarkt .
Elisabeth (c. 1406–5 March 1468,
Heidelberg ), married to:
1430 in
Mainz
Adolf, Duke of Jülich-Berg ;
1440 in
Worms Count
Hesso of Leiningen .
Amalie (1408–1432), a nun in St. Klara Monastery in Munich.
References
Sources
Thomas, Andrew L. (2010). A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 . Brill.
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