Duchess consort of Bavaria
Margaret of Brieg
(1342?1386) was a daughter of
Ludwik I the Fair
and his wife, Agnes of Sagan. She was Duchess consort of Bavaria by her marriage to
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
.
Family
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Margaret was the eldest of six siblings, her brother was
Henry VII of Brzeg
and her sister, Hedwig was married to
Jan II of O?wi?cim
.
Margaret's maternal grandparents were
Henry IV the Faithful
and Matilde of Brandenburg. Her paternal grandparents were
Bolesław III the Generous
and his first wife
Margaret of Bohemia
.
Margaret of Bohemia was the youngest surviving child of
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia
and
Judith of Habsburg
. Judith was the youngest daughter of
Rudolf I of Germany
and
Gertrude of Hohenberg
.
Marriage
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In
Passau
after 19 July 1353, Margaret and
Albert
were married.
Albert kept mistresses and lovers, but during his reign, troubles erupted between parties because of a woman,
Aleid van Poelgeest
. People did not like her because she gained political influence which was resented. A few years after Margaret's death, Aleid was murdered in
The Hague
.
Even though Albert had mistresses and lovers, the couple still had seven children; all of the children lived to adulthood, this was very uncommon during the time, many offspring died in infancy and the mother may die during childbirth. Margaret and Louis had the following children:
- Katharina
(c. 1361?1400,
Hattem
), married in
Geertruidenberg
in 1379
William I of Gelders and Julich
- Johanna
(c. 1362?1386), wife of
Wenceslaus, King of the Romans
- Margaret
(1363 ? 23 January 1423,
Dijon
), married in
Cambrai
in 1385
John the Fearless
,
son of
Philip the Bold
- William VI, Count of Holland
(1365?1417),
married in 1385
Margaret
, daughter of
Philip the Bold
- Albert II, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing
(1369 ? 21 January 1397,
Kelheim
)
- Joanna Sophia
(c. 1373 ? 15 November 1410,
Vienna
), married on 15 June 1395
Albert IV, Duke of Austria
- John, Count of Holland
(1374/76 ? 1425),
Bishop of Liege
All of Margaret's daughters married into powerful royal families, one daughter, Johanna Sophia, was grandmother of
Ladislaus the Posthumous
. Another daughter, Margaret, was mother of
Philip the Good
, Duke of Burgundy
Death
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Margaret died in 1386,
aged around 44, she left her husband a widower. Albert remarried after the death of Margaret, he married another woman named
Margaret
, but she was from the Duchy of
Cleves
. Albert's only legitimate children were from Margaret of Brieg, he had no issue by Margaret of Cleves, but they held court together in
The Hague
. Margaret of Brieg was buried in the Court Chapel at the
Binnenhof
in The Hague.
References
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Sources
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- Stein, Robert (2017).
Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States: The Unification of the Burgundian Netherlands, 1380-1480
. Oxford University Press.