Everything about Albert Iii Duke Of Bavaria totally explained
Albert III of Bavaria-Munich (
German:
Albrecht III. der Fromme, Herzog von Bayern-München), (
27 March 1401 –
29 February 1460), since
1438 Duke of
Bavaria-Munich.
Life
Albert was born in
Munich.
He had earlier in
1429 been engaged to Elisabeth, the daughter of
Eberhard III, Count of Württemberg, but she'd eloped and married a Count of Werdenberg, who had been a page at her fathers court.
As administrator of his father, Duke
Ernest, in the former duchy of Bavaria-
Straubing he secretly married
Agnes Bernauer, a maid from
Augsburg, in
1432, but his father was against this marriage. In
1435, when Agnes lived in Straubing, Ernest ordered to murder Agnes Bernauer. She was accused of witchcraft, thrown into the River
Danube and drowned while Albert was absent hunting. After her death, Albert took himself to
Duke Louis at
Ingolstadt, but he reconciled with his father that November.
After reconciliation with his father Albert married princess Anna of
Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck and had ten children with her.
In
1438 he followed his father as duke of Bavaria-Munich. In
1440 he abstained the offered
Bohemian crown and
1444 and
1445 he initiated two campaigns against the
Robber barons. After the extinction of the dukes of Bavaria-
Ingolstadt he also released this duchy to his father's cousin
Henry XVI of Bavaria-Landshut in
1447.
In
1455 Albert founded the Benedictine monastery in
Andechs.
He died in Munich in 1460 and is buried in Andechs.
Family and children
On
22 January 1437, in
Munich, he married Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck, daughter of Duke Erich I of Brunswick-Salzderhelden and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen and they'd the following children:
- John IV, Duke of Bavaria (4 October 1437, Munich–18 November 1463, Haidhausen).
- Ernst (26 August 1438, Munich–29 February 1460, Straubing).
- Sigismund of Bavaria (1439, Straubing–1 February 1501, Blutenburg Castle).
- Albrecht (24 December 1440–1445, Straubing).
- Margarete (1 January 1442, Munich–14 October 1479, Mantua), married in Mantua 10 May 1463 to Federico I Gonzaga.
- Elisabeth (2 February 1443–5 March 1486, Leipzig), married in Leipzig 19 November 1460 to Elector Ernst of Saxony.
- Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (15 December 1447, Munich–10 March 1508, Munich).
- Christoph, Duke of Bavaria (6 January 1449–8 August 1493, Rhodos).
- Wolfgang (1 November 1451–24 May 1514, Landsberg am Lech), a canon in Passau, Augsburg and Köln.
- Barbara (9 June 1454, Munich–24 June 1472, Munich), a nun in Munich.
Also he'd at least three illegitimate children.
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