John I, Duke of Bavaria

John I, Duke of Bavaria
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Father	Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
Mother	Margaret of Bohemia
Born	29 November 1329
Died	20 December 1340 (aged 11) Landshut

John I of Bavaria (29 November 1329 – 20 December 1340), (German: Johann I das Kind, Herzog von Niederbayern), he was the Duke of Lower Bavaria since 1339.

John I was the son of Henry XIV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, and Margaret of Bohemia. His maternal grandparents were John I of Bohemia and Elisabeth of Bohemia

Life

He married Anna of Bavaria (1326 - 3 June 1361), daughter of Louis IV of Bavaria. Still a minor, John I was the last duke of Lower Bavaria for one year only; after his early death in 1340 the duchy of Lower Bavaria passed to Louis IV, who then reunited the duchy of Bavaria in January 1341. His mother Margaret of Bohemia, as a member of the Luxemburg dynasty, then had to return to Bohemia.

Ancestors

Ancestors of John I, Duke of Bavaria

16. Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria               8. Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria                       17. Agnes of the Palatinate               4. Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria                             18. Béla IV of Hungary               9. Elisabeth of Hungary                       19. Maria Laskarina               2. Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria                                   20. Bolesław II the Bald               10. Bolko I, Duke of Jawor and Świdnica                       21. Hedwig of Anhalt               5. Jutta of Świdnica                             22. Otto V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel               11. Beatrice of Brandenburg-Salzwedel                       23. Judith of Henneberg-Coburg               1. John I, Duke of Bavaria                                         24. Henry VI of Luxembourg               12. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor                       25. Beatrice d'Avesnes               6. John of Bohemia                             26. John I, Duke of Brabant               13. Margaret of Brabant                       27. Margaret of Flanders               3. Margaret of Bohemia                                   28. Ottokar II of Bohemia               14. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia                       29. Kunigunda of Slavonia               7. Elisabeth of Bohemia                             30. Rudolph I of Germany               15. Judith of Habsburg                       31. Gertrude of Hohenburg

External links

• Cawley, Charles, His listing along with his wife . The project "involves extracting and analysing detailed information from primary sources, including contemporary chronicles, cartularies, necrologies and testaments.", Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012
• A listing of descendants of Otto I, Count of Scheyern, including Henry XIII and his children