Margaret of Bavaria

{{Infobox royalty

| consort = yes

| name = Margaret of Bavaria

| succession= Duchess consort of Burgundy

| image =Flemish School - Lille - Margaret of Bavaria.jpg

| caption = 16th-century anonymous painting of Margaret

| reign = 1404–1419

| coronation =

| spouse = {{marriage|John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy|12 April 1385|1419|end=d}}

| issue = {{Plainlist|

Catherine
Marie, Duchess of Cleves
Margaret, Duchess of Brittany
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy
Isabelle, Countess of Penthièvre and Périgord
Anne, Duchess of Bedford
Agnes, Duchess of Bourbon

}}

| house = Wittelsbach

| father = Albert I, Duke of Bavaria

| mother = Margaret of Brieg

| birth_date = 1363

| birth_place =

| death_date = 23 January {{death year and age|1424|1363}}

| death_place =Dijon

| date of burial =

| place of burial =

}}

Margaret of Bavaria (1363 – 23 January 1424, Dijon) was Duchess of Burgundy by marriage to John the Fearless. She was the regent of the Burgundian Low Countries during the absence of her spouse in 1404–1419{{Cite web|url=http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/MargarethaVanBeieren|title = Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland|date = 17 September 2019}} and the regent in French Burgundy during the absence of her son in 1419–1423. She became most known for her successful defense of the Duchy of Burgundy against Count John IV of Armagnac in 1419.

Life

Margaret was the fifth child of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland and Lord of Frisia, and Margaret of Brieg.{{sfn|Stein|2017|p=37}}

=Marriage=

On 12 April 1385, at the Burgundian double wedding in Cambrai, Margaret married John, Count of Nevers, the son and heir of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Dampierre, Countess of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy;{{sfn|Vaughan|2010|p=2-3}} at the same time her brother, William II, Duke of Bavaria, married Margaret of Burgundy.

=Duchess regent=

With the death of Philip the Bold in 1404, and Margaret of Dampierre in 1405, John inherited his parents' territories, and Margaret became duchess. In 1409, Margaret was named deputy regent of the Duchy of Burgundy, to rule whenever her spouse was absent from the Duchy to attend to other parts of his realm. In 1419, Margaret became a widow. Her son confirmed his father's appointment of Margaret as deputy regent of Burgundy, and she ruled Burgundy during the absence of her son in 1419–1423.

Children

Margaret and John had:

Margaret, Countess of Gien and Montargis (1393–2 February 1442, Paris), married, on 30 August 1404, Louis, Dauphin of France,{{sfn|Vaughan|2005|p=82}} then, on 10 October 1422, Arthur de Richemont, Constable of France, the future Duke of Brittany
Catherine (d. 1414, Ghent)
Mary (d. 30 October 1463, Monterberg bei Kalkar), married Adolph I, Duke of Cleves{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|loc=Table 63}}
Philip the Good (1396–1467), Duke of Burgundy,{{sfn|Stein|2017|p=37}} Count of Flanders{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|loc=Table 63}}
Isabella, Countess of Penthièvre (d. 18 September 1412, Rouvres), married at Arras on 22 July 1406 to Olivier de Châtillon-Blois, Count of Penthièvre and Périgord
Joan (b. 1399, Bouvres), d. young
Anne (1404 – 14 November 1432, Paris), married John, Duke of Bedford{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|loc=Table 63}}
Agnes (1407 – 1 December 1476, Château de Moulins), married Charles I, Duke of Bourbon{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|loc=Table 63}}

File:Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon - Jan zonder Vrees en Margaretha van Beieren (1363-1423) 23-10-2016 10-14-24.JPG|upright=1.35|The tombstone of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria in Dijon

File:Musée_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Dijon_Praalgraf_Margaretha_van_Beieren_(1363-1423)_23-10-2016_10-10-009.JPG|upright=1.35|Margaret of Bavaria on her tombstone in Dijon

References

Sources

{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Stein |title=Magnanimous Dukes and Rising States: The Unification of the Burgundian |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 }}
{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Vaughan |title=Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State |publisher=The Boydell Press |year=2005 }}
{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Vaughan |title=John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power |publisher=The Boydell Press |year=2010 }}
{{cite book |editor-first1=A.W. |editor-last1=Ward |editor-first2=G.W. |editor-last2=Prothero |editor-first3=Stanley |editor-last3=Leathes |title=The Cambridge Modern History |volume=XIII |publisher=Cambridge at the University Press |year=1934 }}