Anne of Bavaria

Anna of Bavaria
Queen consort of Germany
Tenure	1349–1353
Queen consort of Bohemia
Tenure	1349–1353
Queen consort of the Romans
Tenure	1349–1353
Born	26 September 1329
Died	2 February 1353 (aged 23)
Spouse	Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Issue	Wenceslaus (died young)
House	Luxembourg dynasty (by marriage) House of Wittelsbach (by birth)
Father	Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria
Mother	Anne of Tirol

Anne of Bavaria (or of the Palatinate; Czech: Anna Falcká; 26 September 1329 – 2 February 1353) was a queen consort of Bohemia. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Anna, daughter of Otto III of Carinthia.

She was a member of the House of Wittelsbach.

Anna married Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV on 11 March 1349 in the town of Bacharach on the Rhine. She became the second wife of Charles after the death of his first wife, Blanche of Valois, in 1348.

On 26 July 1349 in Aachen, Anna was crowned Queen of Rome. Months later she was crowned Queen of Bohemia;

In 1350, Anna gave birth to the long desired son, Wenceslaus, who died one year later, in 1351. Anna did not have more children and died herself in 1353 at the age of twenty-three.

Charles was widowed for a second time and still had no son. He then married Anna von Schweidnitz, who gave birth to the desired heir, Wenceslaus, King of the Romans.

Ancestors

Family of Anne of Bavaria

16. Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria 8. Louis II, Duke of Bavaria 17. Agnes of the Palatinate 4. Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria 18. Rudolph I of Germany 9. Matilda of Habsburg 19. Gertrude of Hohenburg 2. Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine 20. Walram II, Count of Nassau 10. Adolf of Germany 21. Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen 5. Mechtild of Nassau 22. Gerlach IV of Isenburg-Limburg 11. Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg 23. Imagina of Blieskastel 1. Anne of Bavaria 24. Meinhard I of Gorizia-Tyrol 12. Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia 25. Adelheid of Tyrol 6. Otto III of Carinthia 26. Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (=16) 13. Elizabeth of Bavaria 27. Agnes of the Palatinate (=17) 3. Anne of Carinthia 28. Bolesław II Rogatka 14. Henry V, Duke of Legnica 29. Hedwig of Anhalt 7. Euphemia of Legnica 30. Bolesław the Pious of Poland 15. Elisabeth of Kalisz 31. Jolenta of Poland