Sibylle of Bavaria
Sibylle of Bavaria | |
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Electress Palatine | |
Tenure | 23 February 1511 – 18 April 1519 |
Born | 16 June 1489 |
Died | 18 April 1519 Heidelberg | (aged 29)
Burial | |
Spouse | Louis V, Elector Palatine |
Father | Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich |
Mother | Kunigunde of Austria |
Sibylle of Bavaria (16 June 1489 – 18 April 1519 in Heidelberg) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach was a princess of Bavaria-Munich and by marriage Electress Palatine.
Life
Sibylle was the daughter of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich (1447–1508) from his marriage to Kunigunde of Austria (1465–1520), daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. She married on 23 February 1511 in Heidelberg Elector Palatine Louis V (1478–1544). The couple had no children.
Louis had earlier been engaged to Sibylle's elder sister
Sibylle died in 1519 and was buried in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Heidelberg. For a while, Sibylle's inheritance was claimed by her brother Ernest. This claim was denied by her widower and her brother William. Instead, Ernest was promised a high ecclesiastic office.[4]
References
- Katrin Nina Marth (2009), "Dem löblichen Hawss Beirn zu pesserung, aufnemung vnd erweiterung ...". The dynastic politics of the House of Bavaria at the turn of the late Middle Ages and early modern times (thesis), Regensburg: University of Regensburg, pp. 154–171
Footnotes
- ^ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographical Dictionary of the Austrian Empire, Vol. 6. K.K. Court and State Printing, 1860, p. 405
- ^ Andreas Kraus: Handbook of Bavarian history: History of the Upper Palatinate and the Bavarian Circle until the end of the 18th Century, Volume 3, C.H. Beck, 1995, p. 83
- ^ Hermann Wiesflecker: Emperor Maximilian I, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1986, p. 24
- ^ Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences: Historical class: Proceedings of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, volume 10, The Academy, 1867, p. 119