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Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria

Albert IV
Duke of Bavaria
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Albert IV of Bavaria (portrait by Barthel Beham)
Reign 1465 (Bavaria-Munich) / 1503 (Bavaria-Landshut)– 18 March 1508
co-regents Duke Sigismund
Duke Wolfgang
Duke Christoph
Predecessor John IV (Bavaria-Munich)
George (Bavaria-Landshut)
Successor William IV
Born (1447-12-15)December 15, 1447
Munich
Died March 18, 1508(1508-03-18)
Munich
Spouse Kunigunde of Austria (1465-1520)
Issue Sidonie
Sibylle
Sabina
William IV, Duke of Bavaria
Louis X, Duke of Bavaria
Susanne
Ernest of Bavaria
Susanne
House House of Wittelsbach
Father Albert III
Mother Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck

Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich (15 December 1447, Munich – 18 March 1508, Munich), (German: Albrecht IV., der Weise, Herzog von Bayern), from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria.

Albert was a son of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria and Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck. After the death of his older brother John IV, Duke of Bavaria he gave up his spiritual career and returned from Pavia to Munich. When his brothers Christoph and Wolfgang had resigned Albert became sole duke, but a new duchy Bavaria-Dachau was created from Bavaria-Munich for his brother Duke Sigismund in 1467. After Sigismund's death in 1501, it reverted to Bavaria-Munich.

The marriage of Kunigunde of Austria to Albert IV, was a result of intrigues and deception, but must be counted as a defeat for emperor Frederick III. Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde (who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry. Frederick agreed at first, but after Albert took over yet another fief, Regensburg, Frederick withdrew his consent. On January 2, 1487, however, before Frederick's change of heart could be communicated to his daughter, Kunigunde married Albert. A war was prevented only by intermediation by the Emperor's son, Maximilian. For Albert's wedding the Grünwald castle was extended in 1486/87 by Jörg von Weikertshausen. Albert finally decided to return territorial acquisitions in Swabia in 1492 to avoid a war with the Habsburg and the Swabian League. He then also had to release Regensburg which had been reunited with Bavaria in 1486 and had to renounce Further Austria when Sigismund, Archduke of Austria tried to make it over to Albert.


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