Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria

Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria

Duke Stephen II of Bavaria (1319 – 13 May 1375, Landshut) (German: "Stephan II mit der Hafte, Herzog von Bayern"), after 1347 Duke of Bavaria. He was the second son of Emperor Louis IV and Beatrix von Silesia-Glogau and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

Biography

Under his father Stephen served as vogt of Swabia and Alsace. When his father died in 1347, Stephen succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers. His father had reunited Bavaria in 1340 but in 1349 the country was divided for the emperor's sons again into Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing. Stephen II ruled from 1349 to 1353 together with his brothers William I and Albert I in Holland and Lower Bavaria-Landshut, after 1353 only in Lower Bavaria-Landshut.

After the temporary reconciliation of the Wittelsbach with Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, who had finally confirmed all Wittelsbach possessions, Stephen joined Charles' expedition to Italy in 1354. But soon the Golden Bull of 1356 caused a new conflict since only the Palatinate branch of the Wittelsbach and his brother Louis VI the Roman as margrave of Brandenburg were invested with the electoral dignity. Stephen II was the last son of Emperor Louis IV who was absolved from excommunication in 1362.

When Duke Meinhard, the son of his older brother Louis V the Brandenburger died in 1363, Stephen II succeeded also in Upper Bavaria and invaded Tyrol. To strengthen his position he confederated with Bernabò Visconti. Stephen finally renounced Tyrol to the Habsburgs with the Peace of Schärding for a huge financial compensation after the death of Margarete Maultasch in 1369.

His conflict with his brother Louis VI the Roman on the Bavarian heritage of Meinhard finally caused also the loss of Brandenburg for the Wittelsbach dynasty since Louis then made Charles IV his contracted heir. However Stephen accepted his brother Otto, the last Wittelsbach regent of Brandenburg, as his nominal co-regent when he returned to Bavaria in 1373. For the loss of Brandenburg the Bavarian dukes received a financial compensation one more time. Stephen was succeeded by his three sons.

He is buried in the Frauenkirche in Munich.

Family and children

He was married two times. First, 27 June 1328 with Elizabetta of Sicily, daughter of King Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou. Second, he married 14 February 1359 with Margarete of Nuremberg, daughter of John II of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Henneberg. All his children were from first marriage, including three sons, who finally divided Bavaria among themselves in 1392 and one daughter:
# Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1337–September 26, 1413, Niederschönfeld).
# Frederick of Bavaria-Landshut (1339–December 4 1393,Budweis).
# John II of Bavaria-Munich (1341–1397).
# Agnes (b. 1338), married c. 1356 King James I of Cyprus.

Two of Stephen's sons (Stephen III and Frederick) and one grandson (John's son Ernest) were married with daughters of his ally Bernabò Visconti.

In 1447 Bavaria-Ingolstadt was united with Bavaria-Landshut, which was seized by Bavaria-Munich in 1503.

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubadnw/history/maps/d1347.jpgMap of the Holy Roman Empire in 1347]

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