Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
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Duke Louis II of Bavaria (13 April 1229, Heidelberg – 2 February 1294, Heidelberg) (German: Ludwig II der Strenge, Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein), from 1253 Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate).
Life
He was a son of duke Otto II and Agnes. Her grandfathers were duke Henry XII the Lion and Conrad of Hohenstaufen.When the Wittelsbach country was divided in 1255 among Otto's sons, Louis received the Palatinate and Upper Bavaria; his brother Henry XIII received Lower Bavaria. This partition was against the law and therefore caused the anger of the bishops in Bavaria who allied with Otakar II in 1257. In August 1257 Ottokar invaded Bavaria, but Louis and Henry managed to repulse the attack. It was one of the rare harmonious actions of both brothers who often argued.
Together with his brother he also supported his nephew Conradin. After the young prince's execution in Naples in 1268, Louis inherited some of Conradin's possessions in Swabia and supported the election of Rudolph I against Otakar II in 1373.
Family and children
He was married three times. Louis stabbed his first wife Mary of Brabant due to wrong accusations of adultery in Donauwörth 1256. As expiation he founded Fürstenfeldbruck monastery. Second, he married 1260 Anna of Glogau and had the following children:- Maria (b. 1261), nun in cloister Marienburg.
- Ludwig (13 September 1267–23 November 1290, killed at a tournament at Nuremberg.
- Agnes (ca. 1267/77–1345), married to:
- # 1290 in Donauwörth Landgrave Henry II of Hesse;
- # 1298/1303 Heinrich I "Ohneland", Margrave of Brandenburg.
- Rudolf I (4 October 1274, Basel–12 August 1319).
- Mechtild (1275–28 March 1319, Lüneburg), married 1288 to Duke Otto II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
- Louis IV (1 April 1282, Munich–11 October 1347, Puch bei Fürstenfeldbruck).
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