Everything about Louis I Duke Of Bavaria totally explained
Duke Louis I of Bavaria (
German:
Ludwig I der Kelheimer, Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein) (
Kelheim,
23 December,
1173 –
15 September 1231 in Kelheim) was the Duke of
Bavaria in
1183 and
Count Palatine of the Rhine in
1214. He was a son of
Otto I and his wife
Agnes of Loon.==Biography==
Louis extended the duchy of Bavaria and founded many cities. Among the cities he founded were
Landshut in 1204,
Straubing in 1218 and
Landau an der Isar in 1224. He supported the
Welf Emperor
Otto IV, who therefore confirmed the everlasting reign of the
Wittelsbach family in
Bavaria. But in 1211 Louis joined the
Hohenstaufen party; Emperor
Frederick II rewarded him with the Palatinate of the Rhine in 1214: His son
Otto was married with Agnes of
the Palatinate, a granddaughter of Duke
Henry the Lion and
Conrad of Hohenstaufen. With this marriage, the Wittelsbach inherited the Palatinate and kept it as a Wittelsbach possession until 1918. Since that time also the lion has become a heraldic symbol in the coat of arms for Bavaria and the Palatinate.
In 1221 Louis participated in the
Fifth Crusade and was imprisoned in
Egypt. Louis was murdered in 1231 on a bridge in Kelheim. The crime was never cleared up since the murderer was immediately lynched. Due to the following aversion of the Wittelsbach family the city of Kelheim lost its status as one of the ducal residences. Louis was buried in the crypt of
Scheyern Abbey.
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