Margaret of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria

Margaret of Bohemia (; 1313–11 July 1341), also Margaret of Luxembourg , was the daughter of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia by his first wife, Elizabeth of Bohemia.

Family Margaret's maternal grandparents were Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and his first wife, Judith of Habsburg. Her paternal grandparents were, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Margaret of Brabant. Her younger brother was crowned Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1349, and her other siblings included Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France; John Henry, Margrave of Moravia; and Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria, wife of Otto, Duke of Austria.

When Margaret was about seventeen, her mother died. When her father decided to remarry, he married Beatrice of Bourbon. They had a son, Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg, who succeeded his father in Luxembourg.

Marriage She married Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria in Straubing on 12 August 1328.

Her children with Henry XIV of Bavaria were: John I, Duke of Bavaria (1329–1340) Henry of Wittelsbach (born 1330, died young).

Henry XIV had conflicts with his co-regnants of Bavaria – his brother, Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria (died 1334), and his cousin, Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria – regarding the partitioning of the Bavarian lands. This worsened the relationship between the emperor and Henry XIV, who allied with Margaret's father, John.

Widowhood Some months after the reconciliation with Louis IV, in February 1339, Henry died from leprosy. He was succeeded by his ten year old son, John I. With the death of Duke John I in 1340, Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor inherited Lower Bavaria and then reunited the duchy of Bavaria.

Margaret of Bohemia, as a member of the Luxemburg dynasty, was then driven by Louis from Bavaria. Her brother Charles forged plans to marry Margaret to Casimir III the Great, King of Poland, but she refused the match as she was "overcome with grief" after the deaths of her husband and son. She died in 1341, before the marriage was supposed to take place.

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