Margaret of Bavaria

"Margaret of Bavaria" may also refer to Margaret, Duchess of Slavonia and Margaret, Marchioness of Mantua.

Margaret of Bavaria
Tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria (Dijon)
Duchess consort of Burgundy
Tenure	1404–1419
Born	1363
Died	23 January 1423 Dijon
Spouse	John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
Issue	Catherine Marie, Duchess of Cleves Margaret, Duchess of Brittany Philip III, Duke of Burgundy Isabelle, Countess of Penthièvre and Périgord Anne, Duchess of Bedford Agnes, Duchess of Bourbon
House	House of Wittelsbach (by birth) House of Valois (by marriage)
Father	Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
Mother	Margaret of Brieg

Margaret of Bavaria, (1363–23 January 1423, Dijon), was the fifth child of Albert, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing, Count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland and Lord of Frisia, and Margaret of Brieg.^[1] She was the regent of the Burgundian Low countries during the absence of her spouse in 1404–1419^[2] and the regent in French Burgundy during the absence of her son in 1419–1423.^[2] She became most known for her successful defense of French Burgundy against John IV, Count of Armagnac in 1419.^[2]

Marriage

In 1385, at the Burgundian double wedding in Cambrai, she married John, Count of Nevers, the son and heir of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret of Dampierre, Countess of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy;^[3] at the same time her brother, William II, Duke of Bavaria married their daughter Margaret of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria. With the death of Philip the Bold in 1404, and Margaret of Dampierre in 1405, John inherited these territories, and Margaret became his consort. They had only one son, Philip the Good (1396–1467), who inherited these territories, and seven daughters.

Children

• Margaret, Countess of Gien and Montargis (1393–2 February 1441, Paris), married, on 30 August 1404, Louis, Dauphin of France, then, on 10 October 1422, Arthur de Richemont, Constable of France, the future Duke of Brittany
• Catherine (d. 1414, Ghent)
• Mary (d. 30 October 1463, Monterberg bei Kalkar). She married Adolph I, Duke of Cleves.
• Philip the Good, his successor (1396–1467)
• Isabella, Countess of Penthièvre (d. 18 September 1412, Rouvres), married at Arras on 22 July 1406 to Olivier de Châtillon-Blois, Count of Penthièvre and Périgord
• Joan (b. 1399, Bouvres), d. young
• Anne (1404–14 November 1432, Paris), married John, Duke of Bedford
• Agnes (1407–1 December 1476, Château de Moulins), married Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

Ancestors

Ancestors of Margaret of Bavaria

16. Otto II, Duke of Bavaria               8. Louis II, Duke of Bavaria                       17. Agnes of the Palatinate               4. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor                             18. Rudolph I of Germany               9. Matilda of Habsburg                       19. Gertrude of Hohenburg               2. Albert I, Duke of Bavaria                                   20. John II, Count of Hainaut               10. William I, Count of Hainaut                       21. Philippa of Luxembourg               5. Margaret II, Countess of Hainault                             22. Charles of Valois               11. Joan of Valois                       23. Margaret, Countess of Anjou               1. Margaret of Bavaria                                         24. Casimir I of Poland               12. Bolesław III the Generous                       25. Maria Dobroniega of Kiev               6. Ludwik I the Fair                             26. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia               13. Margaret of Bohemia                       27. Judith of Habsburg               3. Margaret of Brieg                                   28. Henry III, Duke of Głogów               14. Henry IV the Faithful                       29. Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg               7. Agnes of Głogów                             30. Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel               15. Matilda of Brandenburg                       31. Anne of Austria

Notes

1. Bayley, Francis, The Bailleuls of Flanders and the Bayleys of Willow Hall, (Spottiswoode & Co.:London, 1881), 263.
2. http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/MargarethaVanBeieren
3. Richard Vaughan, John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power, (The Boydell Press, 2010), 2-3.

References

• Bayley, Francis, The Bailleuls of Flanders and the Bayleys of Willow Hall, (Spottiswoode & Co.:London, 1881)