Ludwig IV,
Holy Roman Emperor [1328-1347], King of Germany [1314-1347], Duke of Upper Bavaria [1294-1347], Duke of Lower Bavaria [1340-1347] (1282-1347) 1m: 1309 Beatrix of Schweidnitz (1292-1322); 2m: 1324 Margareta,
Countess of Hainaut & Seeland (1311-1356)
[1m.] Ludwig V,
Duke of Upper Bavaria [1347-1361], Duke of Kärnten, Count of Tirol [1342-1361], Margrave of Brandenburg [1323-1341] (1315-1361) 1m: 1324 Margareta of Denmark (1305-1340); 2m: 1342
[1] Margarethe,
Countess of Tirol (1318-1369)
[1m.] Elisabeth
[2] (1328-1363) m: 1342 Johann Heinrich,
Margrave of Brandenburg (1322-1375)
[1m.] Stillborn Son (1334)
[2m.] Hermann (1443-1446)
[2m.] Albrecht
[3] I,
Duke of Upper Bavaria [1361-1407], Count of Tirol [as Albrecht VII
, 1361-1407] (1345-1407) 1m: 1359 Margarethe of Austria (1346-1366); 2m: ?
[1m.] Albrecht II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, Count of Tirol [1407-1408] (1361-1408) m: ?
[1m.] Margarethe (1363-1398) m: Austria?
[1m.] Adelheid (1364-1373)
[2m.] Stillborn Daughter (1347)
[2m.] Stillborn Daughter (1349)
[1m.] Other children
[1] The whole Countess of Tirol-Ludwig V and Elisabeth to Johann Heinrich happens as a sort of “exchange settlement”. Ludwig gets Margarethe (and the county of Tirol) while Johann Heinrich is wed to Ludwig’s daughter and the understanding he will receive the margraviate of Brandenburg. Margarethe and Johann Heinrich are thus spared the
years of litigation about their marriage (which is simply dissolved on grounds of non-consummation). While I understand that it’s unlikely that the Luxemburgs would
trade Tirol for Brandenburg, my line of thinking is that it also frees up resources the Luxemburgs were
directing to the on-again-off-again running war in Tirol. As a matter of fact, it leaves enforcing that war to the Wittelsbachs.
[2] “Elisabeth” is the daughter some sources mention Ludwig V as having had with his Danish wife. Other sources mention a son named “Matthias” (weird name for the period). Here I went that Ludwig V and his Danish wife had a daughter practically as soon as dad was old enough to get it up.
[3] Margarethe supposedly (according to Luxemburg propaganda during the divorce proceedings) had an illegitimate son by this name. However, by the time the rumour started in February 1342, the child was already old enough to play an
active/
decisive role in his mother’s conspiracy against the Luxemburgs, which would point to being older than fifteen (at best). If such a son
had existed, that would mean not only was he born
before Margarethe’s marriage to Johann Heinrich (if he was fifteen, that would give him a birth year of 1327/1328), but also that Margarethe was nine or ten when she gave birth to him. Margarethe
did have
two illegitimate
half-brothers called “Albert”, and another two named “Matthäus”/”Matthias”. One has to wonder if this isn’t where the “Matthias, son of Ludwig V” comes from: a conflation of the rumour about Margarethe having had an illegitimate son, and then the son being ascribed to Ludwig V (by virtue of when the boy was born) by mistake.
