John I, Duke of Bavaria

John I, Duke of Bavaria
Born	(1329-11-29)29 November 1329
Died	20 December 1340(1340-12-20) (aged 11) Landshut
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Father	Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
Mother	Margaret of Bohemia

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

Family 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

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• A listing of descendants of Otto I, Count of Scheyern, including Henry XIII and his children