♂ Louis I Wittelsbach

1173 - 1231

 

Duke of Bavaria

Louis I Wittelsbach
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Parents
Otto I Wittelsbach
Otto I Wittelsbach
1117 - 1183
Agnes Von Loon
Agnes Von Loon
1150 - 1191
Spouse
Ludmilla Of Bohemia
Ludmilla Of Bohemia
1170 - 1240
Children
Otto II Wittelsbach
Otto II Wittelsbach
1206 - 1253

Louis was murdered in 1231 on a bridge in Kelheim . The crime was never cleared up since the murderer was immediately lynched. Due to the following aversion of the Wittelsbach family the city of Kelheim lost its status as one of the ducal residences. Louis was buried in the crypt of Scheyern Abbey .

1173


Dec 23

1204


Age: 29y

marriage


Ludmilla Of Bohemia
1204 Valdemar II, King of Denmark, is recognized as king in Norway.

1206


Apr 7
Age: 32y
1206 Sugar, an import from the Muslim world, is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account. Almonds, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg are also imported for royal banquets.King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 139

1231


Sep 15
Age: 57y
1231 • After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou, Song Dynasty, China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day. Fighting the flames is difficult due to limited visibility. When the fires are extinguished, it is discovered that an entire district of some 10,000 houses in the southeast of the city were consumed by the flames.

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