Margaret of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria

For other people named Margaret of Bohemia, see Margaret of Bohemia (disambiguation).

Margaret of Bohemia (German: Margarete von Böhmen; 1313–11 July 1341), also Margaret of Luxembourg (Czech: Markéta Lucemburská), was the daughter of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia by his first wife, Elizabeth of Bohemia.

Margaret of Bohemia
Duchess of Lower Bavaria
Tenure	1328–1339
Coronation	12 August 1328
Born	(1313-07-08)8 July 1313
Died	11 July 1341(1341-07-11) (aged 28)
Burial	Seligenthal Cloister, Landshut, Germany
Spouse	Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
Issue	John I, Duke of Bavaria Henry of Wittelsbach
House	Luxembourg (by birth) Wittelsbach (by marriage)
Father	John of Luxembourg
Mother	Elizabeth of Bohemia

Family

Margaret's maternal grandparents were Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and his first wife, Judith of Habsburg. Her paternal grandparents were, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Margaret of Brabant. Her younger brother was crowned Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1349, and her other siblings included Bonne, wife of John II of France; John Henry, Margrave of Moravia; and Anna, wife of Otto, Duke of Austria.

When Margaret was about seventeen, her mother died. Her father decided to remarry, he married Beatrice of Bourbon. They had a son, Wenceslaus, who succeeded his father in Luxembourg.

Marriage

She married Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria in Straubing on 12 August 1328. Her children with Henry XIV of Bavaria were:

• John I, Duke of Bavaria (1329–1340)
• Henry of Wittelsbach (born 1330, died young).

Henry XIV had conflicts with his co-regnants of Bavaria – his brother, Otto IV (died 1334), and his cousin, Henry XV – regarding the partitioning of the Bavarian lands. worsened the relationship between the emperor and Henry XIV, who allied with Margaret's father, John.

Some months after the reconciliation with Louis IV, in February 1339, Henry died from leprosy. He was succeeded by his ten year old son, John I. With the death of Duke John I in 1340 Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor inherited Lower Bavaria and then reunited the duchy of Bavaria. Margaret of Bohemia, as a member of the Luxemburg dynasty, then had to return to Bohemia.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Margaret of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria

16. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg 8. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg 17. Margaret of Bar 4. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor 18. Baudoin d'Avesnes 9. Beatrice d'Avesnes 19. Felicitas de Coucy 2. John I of Bohemia 20. Henry III, Duke of Brabant 10. John I, Duke of Brabant 21. Adelaide of Burgundy 5. Margaret of Brabant 22. Guy of Dampierre 11. Margaret of Flanders 23. Matilda de Bethune 1. Margaret of Bohemia 24. Wenceslaus I of Bohemia 12. Ottokar II of Bohemia 25. Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen 6. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia 26. Rostislav Mikhailovich 13. Kunigunda of Slavonia 27. Anna of Hungary 3. Elizabeth of Bohemia 28. Albert IV, Count of Habsburg 14. Rudolf I of Germany 29. Heilwig of Kiburg 7. Judith of Habsburg 30. Burchard III of Hohenberg 15. Gertrude of Hohenberg 31. Mechtild of Tübingen