Margaret of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria

Margaret of Bohemia (1313–1341) was the daughter of King John of Bohemia by his first wife Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330).

Family

Margaret was an elder sister of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who was crowned in 1349. Margaret's maternal grandparents were, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and his first wife, Judith of Habsburg. Her paternal grandparents were, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Margaret of Brabant. When Margaret was about seventeen, her mother died. Her father decided to remarry, he married Beatrice of Bourbon. They had a son, Wencesluas, who succeeded his father in Luxembourg. Her other siblings included:Bonne (wife of John II of France), John Henry, Margrave of Moravia and Anna (wife of Otto, Duke of Austria)

Marriage

She married Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria in Straubing on 12 August 1328. Her children with Henry XIV of Bavaria were:

• John I, Duke of Bavaria (1329–1340)
• Henry of Wittelsbach (born 1330, died young).

Margaret's husband had conflicts with his brother Otto IV (died 1334) and his cousin Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria on the partition of their lands worsened the relationship between the emperor and Henry XIV, who allied with Margaret's father, John. Some months after the reconciliation with Louis IV in February 1339 Henry died from leprosy and was succeeded by his eldest son, John I, Duke of Bavaria. With the death of duke John I in 1340 Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor inherited Lower Bavaria and then reunited the duchy of Bavaria. Margaret of Bohemia, as a member of the Luxemburg dynasty, then had to return to Bohemia.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Margaret of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria

16. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg               8. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg                       17. Margaret of Bar               4. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor                             18. Baudoin d'Avesnes               9. Beatrice d'Avesnes                       19. Felicite de Coucy               2. John I of Bohemia                                   20. Henry III, Duke of Brabant               10. John I, Duke of Brabant                       21. Adelaide of Burgundy               5. Margaret of Brabant                             22. Guy of Dampierre               11. Margaret of Flanders                       23. Matilda de Bethune               1. Margaret of Bohemia                                         24. Wenceslaus I of Bohemia               12. Ottokar II of Bohemia                       25. Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen               6. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia                             26. Rostislav Mikhailovich               13. Kunigunda of Slavonia                       27. Anna of Hungary               3. Elisabeth of Bohemia                                   28. Albert IV, Count of Habsburg               14. Rudolph I of Germany                       29. Heilwig of Kiburg               7. Judith of Habsburg                             30. Burchard III of Hohenberg               15. Gertrude of Hohenburg                       31. Mechtild of Tübingen