Everything about Albert Iv Duke Of Bavaria totally explained
Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich (
15 December 1447 in
Munich –
18 March 1508 in Munich),, from
1467 Duke of
Bavaria-Munich, from
1503 Duke of the reunited
Bavaria.
Biography
Albert was a son of
Albert III, Duke of Bavaria and Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck. After the death of his older brother
John IV, Duke of Bavaria he gave up his spiritual career and returned from
Pavia to Munich. When his brothers Christoph and Wolfgang had resigned Albert became sole duke, but a new duchy Bavaria-
Dachau was created from Bavaria-Munich for his brother Duke
Sigismund in
1467. After Sigismund's death in 1501, it reverted to Bavaria-Munich.
Due to pressing from his father-in-law
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, Albert decided to return territorial acquisitions in
Swabia in
1492 to avoid a conflict with the
Habsburg.
After the death of the last duke of Bavaria-
Landshut George in
1503 Albert managed to reunite the whole of Bavaria in a dreadful
war against George's heirs, the
Palatinate line of his
Wittelsbach family but had to transfer
Kufstein to his brother-in-law
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor as compensation for his support. For the Palatinate branch a new duchy of
Palatinate-Neuburg was created.
To avoid any future division of Bavaria Albert edicted the everlasting succession of the firstborn prince in
1506. Nevertheless his oldest son and successor
William IV, Duke of Bavaria had to share his power from
1516 onwards with his younger brother
Louis X, Duke of Bavaria. After the death of Louis in
1545 the edict became effective until the end of Bavarian monarchy in
1918.
Albert is buried in the
Frauenkirche in Munich.
Family and children
On
3 January 1487 he married to Archiduchess
Kunigunde of Austria, daughter of
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife
Eleonore of Portugal. They had eight children:
- Sidonie (1 May 1488 – 27 March 1505)
- Sibylle (16 June 1489 – 18 April 1519), married in 1511 to Louis V, Elector Palatine
- Sabina (24 April 1492 – 30 April 1564), married in 1511 to Duke Ulrich I of Württemberg
- William IV, Duke of Bavaria (13 November 1493 – 7 March 1550)
- Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (18 September 1495 – 22 April 1545)
- Susanne (1499 – 1500)
- Ernest of Bavaria (13 June 1500 – 1560), an eccliastical official in Passau (1517-40), Köln, Archbishop in Salzburg (1540-54) and Eichstädt
- Susanne (2 April 1502 – 23 April 1543), married:
- in 1518 to Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- in 1529 to Otto Henry, Elector Palatine
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