Landshut War of Succession

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Landshut War of Succession

The Landshut war of succession resulted from an agreement between the duchies of Bavaria-Munich (Bayern-München) and Bavaria-Landshut (Bayern-Landshut), both being lines of the House of Wittelsbach about succession when one of the lines should have no male heir. In this case the line with a male heir should inherit. This agreement disregarded imperial law, which stipulated that the Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor

Image:HRR 14Jh.jpgThe Roman of the Emperor's title was a reflection of the translatio imperii principle that regarded the Holy Roman Emperors as the inheritors of the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a title left unclaimed in the West after the death of Julius Nepos in 480....
should inherit should a line fail.

The Duke George

George of Bavaria

Duke George the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut , , since 1479 the last Duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He was a son of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria and Amalia of Saxony....
of Bayern-Landshut with his wife Jadwiga Jagiellon had no male heir, so George named his daughter Elisabeth his heir.

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George of Bavaria

Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria

Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich , , from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria....
of the Munich line did not accept this, leading to war in 1503. Over the course of this two-year war, many villages surrounding Landshut were reduced to ashes, such as Ergolding

Ergolding

Ergolding is a Municipalities of Germany in the Landshut , in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Isar, 5 km northeast of Landshut....
.

The war ended in 1505 with the death of Elisabeth and her husband Ruprecht of the Palatinate and a decision through arbitration by Emperor Maximilian

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I of Habsburg was Holy Roman Empire from 1508 until his death, but had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his reign, from circa 1483....
on 30 July 1505 at the Reichstag

Reichstag (institution)

The Reichstag was the parliament of the Holy Roman Empire, the North German Confederation, and of Germany until 1945. The main chamber of the German parliament is now called Bundestag , but the building in which it meets is still called "Reichstag" ....
at Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
. The two grandsons of George, Otto Henry

Otto Henry, Elector Palatine

Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1559 and prince elector of the Electoral Palatinate from 1556 to 1559....
(Otto-Heinrich) and Philipp, retained Palatinate-Neuburg

Palatinate-Neuburg

Palatinate-Neuburg is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire, founded in 1505. Its capital was Neuburg an der Donau. Its area was about 2,750 km?, with a population of some 100,000....
(Junge Pfalz), a fragmented region from the upper Danube

Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
over Franconia

Franconia

Franconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria and a much smaller region in northeastern Baden-W?rttemberg called Heilbronn-Franken....
to the northern part of the Upper Palatinate

Upper Palatinate

The Upper Palatinate is one of the seven Regierungsbezirks of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of Bavaria. It is subdivided into two regions - Oberpfalz-Nord and Regensburg....
. Neuburg an der Donau

Neuburg an der Donau

Neuburg an der Donau, literally Neuburg on the Danube, is a town which is the capital of the Neuburg-Schrobenhausen district in the state of Bavaria in Germany....
was chosen as the capital of the new state. Because the two heirs had not yet reached their majority, Frederick II, Count Palatine of the Rhine served as regent in a caretaker regime. The rest of the territory went to the Munich line of the House of Wittelsbach. The emperor took the territory around Kufstein

Kufstein

Kufstein is a city in Tyrol , Austria, located along the river Inn River, in the lower Inn valley, near the border with Bavaria, Germany, and is the site of a post World War II French sector United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration displaced person camp....
for himself as reward for his mediation; the Imperial Free City of Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg is a city in the Germany State of Bavaria, in the Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz River river and the Rhine?Main?Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city....
gained important territories to the east of the city, including the authorities of Lauf

Lauf an der Pegnitz

Lauf an der Pegnitz is a municipality near Nuremberg, Germany. It is the capital of the district N?rnberger Land, in Bavaria....
, Hersbruck

Hersbruck

Hersbruck is a small town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, belonging to the district N?rnberger Land. Famous for the late-gothic artwork of the Hersbruck altar, the "Hirtenmuseum" and the beautiful landscape of the "Hersbrucker Schweiz"....
, and Altdorf

Altdorf bei Nürnberg

Altdorf bei N?rnberg HistoryAltdorf is first mentioned in 1129. In 1504 the town was conquered by the Imperial Free City of Nuremberg....
. As Count Palatine

Count palatine

Count palatine is a noble title, used to render several comital styles, in some cases also shortened to Palatine, which can have other meanings as well....
, Otto-Heinrich spent huge sums of money to build a palace at Neuburg an der Donau. Through inheritance he later became prince-elector

Prince-elector

The Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of Imperial election the Holy Roman Emperors....
of the Palatinate of the Rhine

Palatinate of the Rhine

The Palatinate , historically also Rhenish Palatinate , is a region in south-western Germany. It occupies more than a quarter of the German States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate ....
, where his additions Ottheinrichsbau to Heidelberg Castle

Heidelberg Castle

The Heidelberg Castle is a famous ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps....
made him one of the most important builders of the German Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
.