Everything about The Landshut War Of Succession totally explained
The
Landshut war of succession resulted from an agreement between the duchies of Bavaria-Munich (
Bayern-München) and Bavaria-Landshut (
Bayern-Landshut), both being lines of the
House of Wittelsbach about succession when one of the lines should have no male heir. In this case the line with a male heir should inherit. This agreement disregarded imperial law, which stipulated that the
Holy Roman Emperor should inherit should a line fail.
The Duke
George of Bayern-Landshut with his wife
Jadwiga Jagiellon had no male heir, so George named his daughter Elisabeth his heir. Because of the agreement, duke
Albert of the Munich line didn't accept this, leading to war in 1503. Over the course of this two-year war, many villages surrounding Landshut were reduced to ashes, such as
Ergolding.
The war ended in 1505 with the death of Elisabeth and her husband
Ruprecht of the Palatinate and a decision through arbitration by
Emperor Maximilian on
30 July 1505 at the
Reichstag at
Cologne. The two grandsons of George,
Otto Henry (
Otto-Heinrich) and Philipp, retained
Palatinate-Neuburg (
Junge Pfalz), a fragmented region from the upper
Danube over
Franconia to the northern part of the
Upper Palatinate.
Neuburg an der Donau was chosen as the capital of the new state. Because the two heirs hadn't yet reached their majority,
Frederick II, Count Palatine of the Rhine served as regent in a caretaker regime. The rest of the territory went to the Munich line of the House of Wittelsbach. The emperor took the territory around
Kufstein for himself as reward for his mediation; the
Imperial Free City of
Nuremberg gained important territories to the east of the city, including the authorities of
Lauf,
Hersbruck, and
Altdorf. As
Count Palatine, Otto-Heinrich spent huge sums of money to build a palace at Neuburg an der Donau. Through inheritance he later became
prince-elector of the
Palatinate of the Rhine, where his additions
Ottheinrichsbau to
Heidelberg Castle made him one of the most important builders of the German
Renaissance.
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