Bavaria-Straubing denotes the widely scattered territorial inheritance in the Wittelsbach house of Bavaria that were governed by independent dukes of Bavaria-Straubing between 1353 and 1432; a map ( illustration ) of these marches and outliers of the Holy Roman Empire , vividly demonstrates the fractionalisation of lands where primogeniture did not obtain. In 1349, after Emperor Louis IV 's death, his sons divided Bavaria once again: Lower Bavaria passed to Stephan II (died 1375), William (died 1389) and Albert (died 1404). In 1353, Lower Bavaria was further partitioned into Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Straubing: William and Albert received a part of the Lower Bavarian inheritance, with a capital in Straubing and rights to Hainaut and Holland. Thus the dukes of Bavaria-Straubing were also counts of Hainaut , counts of Holland , and of Zeeland .
2-507: In 1425, with the death of Duke John III, the Straubing dukes became extinct in the male line. His possessions were partitioned between the Dukes of Bavaria-Munich , Bavaria-Landshut and Bavaria-Ingolstadt in 1429 under arbitration of the emperor. His niece Jacqueline became Countess of Hainaut in her own right. After the succession struggle between Jacqueline and her uncle John, Bavaria-Straubing
4-561: Was divided between Bavaria-Ingolstadt , Bavaria-Landshut , and Bavaria-Munich . This Bavaria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bavaria-Munich Bavaria-Munich ( Middle High German : Baiern-Münichen ) was a duchy that was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1392 to 1505. After the death of Stephen II in 1375, his sons Stephen III , Frederick , and John II jointly ruled Bavaria-Landshut . After seventeen years,
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