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Anne of Bavaria (or of the Palatinate; Czech: Anna Falcká; 26 September 1329 – 2 February 1353) was Queen of Bohemia by marriage to Charles of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine , and Anna, daughter of Otto III of Carinthia .
Anne was born in Paris the second of the three daughters of Prince Palatine Edward. Her mother was Anna Gonzaga , a well known Parisian political hostess and sister of the Queen of Poland . At the age of fifteen, she was engaged to Henri Jules, Duke of Enghien , the only surviving child of the famous military commander the Grand Condé .
Anne's regency formally ended in 1651, when Louis XIV was declared of legal majority at the age of thirteen. In 1659, the war with Spain ended with the Treaty of the Pyrenees . The following year, peace was cemented by the marriage of the young king to Anne's niece, the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Theresa of Spain .
She was the mother of ten children by her husband, including Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, though only six of them survived till adulthood. A stillborn child (1695) Maria Anna Karoline (1696–1750), a nun; Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1697–1745), King of Bohemia, and Elector ...
Isabeau of Bavaria (or Isabelle; also Elisabeth of Bavaria-Ingolstadt; 28 April 1370 – 24 September 1435) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti of Milan. At age 15 or 16, Isabella was ...
Her mother returned to Bohemia in 1325 with Anne (the younger Elizabeth having died in 1324), but never regained her health after the return, dying from tuberculosis in 1330. Anne was a younger sister of: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor; Bonne of Bohemia, first wife of John II of France; Margaret of Bohemia, wife of Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria
Isabeau of Bavaria, a Queen after Joan, was also criticized for her power in her reign connecting to the decision of 1318 and later Salic Law, France was a challenging place for women to be powerful and the public was critical of their reigns. [6]
Maria Anna Christine Victoria of Bavaria (French: Marie Anne Victoire; 28 November 1660 – 20 April 1690) was Dauphine of France by marriage to Louis, Grand Dauphin, son and heir of Louis XIV. She was known as la Grande Dauphine. The Dauphine was regarded a "pathetic" figure at the court of France, isolated and unappreciated due to the ...