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| Albert I of Bavaria |
(1336-1404)
Son of Emperor Ludwig IV & Margriet II van Holland
Husband of:
2. Margarethe von Kleve
"This is corroborated by the accounts, which abound with the favors that Duke Albert, in particular, bestowed on ladies at his court, including money, knickknacks, jewels, and other luxuries. The rarest favor, however, must have been the duke's instruction to have the court lake emptied for the sake of a lady who had playfully dropped a diamond into it. In Albert's display of gallantry, it was hard to tell ends from means: to dredge up that diamond, the wall of the sluice had to be breached, later to be hastily replaced with a double dam to prevent half the estate from becoming swamped. Albert was nearly sixty when he issued this impetuous order---clearly, age had no diminished his sexual vitality and needs. During his second marriage, for example (when he was well past fifty), the accounts record gratuities to Albert's mistress in Hainaut and to 'Little Belle and the two children she had with my lord.' In addition , Albert, either accompanied by his son or alone, was in the habit of visiting various stoven (dubious bathhouses) in the village of Die Haghe, which must have doubled as 'massage parlors' for the noble visitors; after all, if all they wanted was a bath, they did not have to leave the Binnenhof---and certainly not after 1401, when a luxurious bathroom was added under the keen eye of Master Engelbert (builder of Egmont Abbey)." (Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450: 121)
"This is corroborated by the accounts, which abound with the favors that Duke Albert, in particular, bestowed on ladies at his court, including money, knickknacks, jewels, and other luxuries. The rarest favor, however, must have been the duke's instruction to have the court lake emptied for the sake of a lady who had playfully dropped a diamond into it. In Albert's display of gallantry, it was hard to tell ends from means: to dredge up that diamond, the wall of the sluice had to be breached, later to be hastily replaced with a double dam to prevent half the estate from becoming swamped. Albert was nearly sixty when he issued this impetuous order---clearly, age had no diminished his sexual vitality and needs. During his second marriage, for example (when he was well past fifty), the accounts record gratuities to Albert's mistress in Hainaut and to 'Little Belle and the two children she had with my lord.' In addition , Albert, either accompanied by his son or alone, was in the habit of visiting various stoven (dubious bathhouses) in the village of Die Haghe, which must have doubled as 'massage parlors' for the noble visitors; after all, if all they wanted was a bath, they did not have to leave the Binnenhof---and certainly not after 1401, when a luxurious bathroom was added under the keen eye of Master Engelbert (builder of Egmont Abbey)." (Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450: 121)
" , , , Albert also had mistresses within his court: the accounts give us glimpses of amorous relations with (in close succession following the celebrated Adelaide of Poelgeest) Lady Barbara, Lady Catherine of Domburch, Lady Catherine of Hoogstraten, Adelaide of Houthuizen, Lady Agnes of Merensteyn, and Matilda, the noble Walter's daughter. . . ." (Court and Culture: Dutch Literature, 1350-1450: 113)
His lovers were:
1) Agnes van Merensteyn.
2) Aleid van Houthuizen.
3) Aleid van Poelgeest (d.1390)
" . . . Albert, after the loss of his wife, formed an illicit connection with Alice van Poelgeest, the daughter of a nobleman of the cod party, whose youth, beauty, and insinuating manners, soon gained such an ascendancy over the mind of her lover, that the whole court was henceforward governed according to her caprices. . . On the night of the 21st of August (1390) . . . Alice . . . fel dead, and covered with wounds. . . . " (History of Holland:177)
"In Albert's own reign, troubles erupted between the parties because of a woman. Albert always had mistresses, but this time his attentions were drawn to Aleid van Poelgeest, a Cod, very beautiful, who gained political influence which was resented. A plot was hatched among the Hooks as well as members of Albert's household. One September night in 1392 Aleid was murdered in The Hague." (Wikipedia)
4) Barbara.
5) Katharina van Domburch.
6) Katharina van Hoogstraten.
7) Matilda.
"In Albert's own reign, troubles erupted between the parties because of a woman. Albert always had mistresses, but this time his attentions were drawn to Aleid van Poelgeest, a Cod, very beautiful, who gained political influence which was resented. A plot was hatched among the Hooks as well as members of Albert's household. One September night in 1392 Aleid was murdered in The Hague." (Wikipedia)
4) Barbara.
5) Katharina van Domburch.
6) Katharina van Hoogstraten.
7) Matilda.
The tragic story of Agnes Bernauer.
" . . . Albert, the only son of Duke Ernst of Bavaria, one of the most valiant and accomplished princes of his age, was affianced to the Countess Elizabeth of Wirtemberg, and the marriage was just about to take place, when, at a grand tournament given in honour of the occasion at Augsburg, he beheld Agnes Bernauer, 'the angel,' as she was called among the citizens, and with whom he became passionately in love. At the same time news was brought to him that the Countess Elizabeth had eloped with a more favoured lover. The prince, regardless of the difference between his rank and that of Agnes, whose father was a bather, an employment that looked on as disreputable in Germany, wooed and in secret married her. The consequences were truly deplorable. The prince's father and family strove to compel him to sign a divorce, and when that attempt failed, the unfortunate Agnes found her ruin only the more surely accomplished by insidious attacks on her fair fame and character. The authorities of Straubing, near which place the prince and his lady resided, seizing the opportunity afforded by Albert's absence for a short time from his palace, arrested Agnes on some frivolous pretext, and when, with an honest indignation, she asserted her innocence, they declared her guilty of treason, and condemned her to death. On the 12th of October, 1436, she was accordingly thrown from the bridge of Straubing into the water; and although she succeeded in freeing one foot from her bonds, and strove, while shrieking for help and mercy, to gain the opposite bank, one of her pitiless executioners caught her long fair hair with a hooked pole, and dragged her back into the stream till all resistance ceased! The horror-stricken husband at first set no bounds to his fury. He obtained an army from his father's bitterest enemy, with which he returned to punish the murderers of his beloved Agnes. The emperor Sigismund now interfered, who at last pacified the prince, and reconciled him with his father; who, to attest his contrition, instituted a perpetual mass for the soul of the deceased lady." (The Penny Magazine, Vol. 10: 334)
"Agnes was born about 1410 in Biberach, and it appears that she was a mere servant girl in Augsburg at the time Duke Albrecht of Würtemberg, the son of Duke Ernest, made her acquaintance. The story that Agnes was of patrician birth and that the lovers met at the great tournament is mere legend, but this much is sure that Agnes was extraordinarily beautiful, with golden hair, and delicate, noble features. Even her enemies could not help praising the nobility of her appearance. We know little or nothing about the relations between Duke Albrecht and Agnes, except that he courted her and took her with him to his residence in the County Vohnburg." (Bavaria & Straubing Fair)
" . . . The tidings were brought to Albert at Augsburg, where he was attending a grand tournament given in honour of the approaching nuptials; but they fell unheeded on his ear, as his heart, which had not been consulted in the choice of his bride, had just yielded itself...to the bright eyes of a young maiden whom he had distinguished from the crowd of beauties that graced the lists. Virtuous as she was lovely, Agnes Bernauer had obtained amongst the citizens of Augsburg the appellation of 'the angel;' but she was the daughter of a bather, an employment considered at that period in Germany as particularly dishonourable." (Higgins, pp. 433-434)
" . . . Albert, the only son of Duke Ernst of Bavaria, one of the most valiant and accomplished princes of his age, was affianced to the Countess Elizabeth of Wirtemberg, and the marriage was just about to take place, when, at a grand tournament given in honour of the occasion at Augsburg, he beheld Agnes Bernauer, 'the angel,' as she was called among the citizens, and with whom he became passionately in love. At the same time news was brought to him that the Countess Elizabeth had eloped with a more favoured lover. The prince, regardless of the difference between his rank and that of Agnes, whose father was a bather, an employment that looked on as disreputable in Germany, wooed and in secret married her. The consequences were truly deplorable. The prince's father and family strove to compel him to sign a divorce, and when that attempt failed, the unfortunate Agnes found her ruin only the more surely accomplished by insidious attacks on her fair fame and character. The authorities of Straubing, near which place the prince and his lady resided, seizing the opportunity afforded by Albert's absence for a short time from his palace, arrested Agnes on some frivolous pretext, and when, with an honest indignation, she asserted her innocence, they declared her guilty of treason, and condemned her to death. On the 12th of October, 1436, she was accordingly thrown from the bridge of Straubing into the water; and although she succeeded in freeing one foot from her bonds, and strove, while shrieking for help and mercy, to gain the opposite bank, one of her pitiless executioners caught her long fair hair with a hooked pole, and dragged her back into the stream till all resistance ceased! The horror-stricken husband at first set no bounds to his fury. He obtained an army from his father's bitterest enemy, with which he returned to punish the murderers of his beloved Agnes. The emperor Sigismund now interfered, who at last pacified the prince, and reconciled him with his father; who, to attest his contrition, instituted a perpetual mass for the soul of the deceased lady." (The Penny Magazine, Vol. 10: 334)
"Agnes was born about 1410 in Biberach, and it appears that she was a mere servant girl in Augsburg at the time Duke Albrecht of Würtemberg, the son of Duke Ernest, made her acquaintance. The story that Agnes was of patrician birth and that the lovers met at the great tournament is mere legend, but this much is sure that Agnes was extraordinarily beautiful, with golden hair, and delicate, noble features. Even her enemies could not help praising the nobility of her appearance. We know little or nothing about the relations between Duke Albrecht and Agnes, except that he courted her and took her with him to his residence in the County Vohnburg." (Bavaria & Straubing Fair)
" . . . The tidings were brought to Albert at Augsburg, where he was attending a grand tournament given in honour of the approaching nuptials; but they fell unheeded on his ear, as his heart, which had not been consulted in the choice of his bride, had just yielded itself...to the bright eyes of a young maiden whom he had distinguished from the crowd of beauties that graced the lists. Virtuous as she was lovely, Agnes Bernauer had obtained amongst the citizens of Augsburg the appellation of 'the angel;' but she was the daughter of a bather, an employment considered at that period in Germany as particularly dishonourable." (Higgins, pp. 433-434)
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| Agnes Bernauer Source |
Friedrich von Beyern.
" . . . In 1509 his sister, Anna, had been seduced and left pregnant by Friedrich von Beyern, a chaplain at Old St. Peter's Church and bastard son of the late bishop of Strasbourg. . . ." (Brady: 236)
Natural offspring:
Daughter of: Seyffert, taxman & Maria Franziska Reichard.
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| Heinrich von Bayern |
Heinrich von Bayern
(1884-1916)
Son of: Ranulf von Bayern & Therese von Liechtenstein.
His lover was:
Daughter of Munich businessman.
Natural offspring:
a. Heinrich (1917-?)
(1724-1799)
Prince-Elector of Bavaria
Count Palatine of Bavaria
Duke of Bavaria.
Husband of:
" . . . How bizarre and unconvincing the horror he voiced over the fact, well known among German musicians, that Johann Baptist Wendling's daughter, Elisabeth Augusta (Gustl), had been Elector Karl Theodore's mistress; how peculiar the young man's precipitate announcement that he must avoid those with whom he had but yesterday passed happy hours." (Gutman: 94)
2) Francoise Despres-Verneuil (d.1765)
Grafin von Parkstein
French actress
2) Francoise Despres-Verneuil (d.1765)
Grafin von Parkstein
French actress
Natural offspring:
Karoline Franziska Dorothea, Grafin von Parkstein (1762-1816), mar Friedrich Wilhelm zu Isenburg-Budingen-Birstein
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| Josepha von Heydeck |
3) Josepha von Heydeck (1748-1771)
Lover in 1765-1771.
German royal mistressDaughter of: Seyffert, taxman & Maria Franziska Reichard.
Natural Offspring:
a. Karoline Josepha, Grafin von Bretzenheim
b. Karl August, Furst von Bretzenheim von Regecz
c. Eleonore, Grafin von Bretzenheim
d. Friederika, Grafin von Bretzenheim, Princess-Abbess of Lindau
d. Friederika, Grafin von Bretzenheim, Princess-Abbess of Lindau
Daughter of: Daniel, Freiherr von Ingenheim & Maria Ana von Hessen-Rheinfels-Wanfried.
Natural offspring:
a. Franz Ludwig von Holnstein, Graf Holnstein aus Bayern (1723-1789)
(1831-1920)
Duke in Bavaria
His lover was:
Henriette Mendel, Freifrau von Wallersee (1833-1891)
German actress.
"Marie Louise Elizabeth Mendel was born February 24, 1858 at Augsburg, Bavaria. The illegitimate first daughter of actress Henriette Mendel, a commoner, and Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria, who was properly addressed as His Royal Highness being the grandson of a king. On March 9, 1859, Ludwig renounced his rights as first-born son, lowering his standing in society and reducing his stipend. On May 9, 1859, the couple had a son, Karl Emanuel Mendel. Henriette was created the Baroness of Wallersee on May 19, 1859 and on 28 May 1859 the Duke and Baroness were married. On that day, Marie and Karl were given the titles Baroness of Wallersee and Baron of Wallersee. Karl died a few months later." [Exploring the Waste Land]
(1662-1726)
His lovers were:
1) Agnes Francoise de Louchier, Comtesse d'Arco.
Natural Offspring: 1. Chevalier de Baviere.
"The Chevalier de Baviere was a natural son of Maximilian II, Elector of Bavaria, by Mlle. Popel, afterwards Comtesse d'Arco. He was evidently a fire-eater for in January 1713 we hear of him proposing to fight a duel with the Marquis de Beuseville, a colonel of cuirassiers, and of Louis XIV sending the Marechal de Villeroy to compel the two gentlemen to compose their differences." (The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu: 24)
2) Julie d'Aubigny (1670-1707)
Lover in 1696.
French opera singer & swords woman
2) Julie d'Aubigny (1670-1707)
Lover in 1696.
French opera singer & swords woman
Wife of: Sieur de Maupin of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Personal & Family Background: "...Julie d'Aubigny, known as La Maupin, was the daughter of Gaston d'Aubigny, secretary of the Comte d'Armagnac, grand ecuyer de France, whose mistress she became although she was married off to an obscure M. Maupin...." (Jeffares) [Bio2] [Ref1]
"On the side, she became a professional duelist. When she fought three noblemen in a court ball around 1693, she fell afoul of the king's law that forbade duels in Paris. She fled to Brussels to wait for calmer times. According to the legend, she was briefly a mistress of Maximilian Emanuel,Elector of Bavaria." (Wikipedia).
" . . . Following a ball in the Palais-Royal, where apparently she fought three male rivals over a young lady they were all interested in, she escaped to Brussels, becoming the mistress of Max Emanuel von Bayern. When he dismissed her in favour of comtesse d'Arco, he sent the latter's husband to La Maupin with an order to leave Brussels and 40,000 francs, which, we are told, she flung in the emissary's face, saying the present was worthy only of a cuckold...." (Jeffares)
"La Maupin was a Sappho, if not in wit, at any rate in habits, and she had the effrontery to be proud of it. Being present once at a ball, she allowed herself certain indecent and provocative gestures toward a lady. Three gentlemen who accompanied the latter tried in vain to stop her. She challenged them, forced them to leave the room with her and killed all three. After this little interlude, she returned quite quietly into the ball-room again.' She was pardoned by the king eventually, her biographer says. She retired to Brussels, where she became the mistress of the Elector of Bavaria." (de Beaumont: 55)
Personal & Family Background: "...Julie d'Aubigny, known as La Maupin, was the daughter of Gaston d'Aubigny, secretary of the Comte d'Armagnac, grand ecuyer de France, whose mistress she became although she was married off to an obscure M. Maupin...." (Jeffares) [Bio2] [Ref1]
"On the side, she became a professional duelist. When she fought three noblemen in a court ball around 1693, she fell afoul of the king's law that forbade duels in Paris. She fled to Brussels to wait for calmer times. According to the legend, she was briefly a mistress of Maximilian Emanuel,Elector of Bavaria." (Wikipedia).
" . . . Following a ball in the Palais-Royal, where apparently she fought three male rivals over a young lady they were all interested in, she escaped to Brussels, becoming the mistress of Max Emanuel von Bayern. When he dismissed her in favour of comtesse d'Arco, he sent the latter's husband to La Maupin with an order to leave Brussels and 40,000 francs, which, we are told, she flung in the emissary's face, saying the present was worthy only of a cuckold...." (Jeffares)
"La Maupin was a Sappho, if not in wit, at any rate in habits, and she had the effrontery to be proud of it. Being present once at a ball, she allowed herself certain indecent and provocative gestures toward a lady. Three gentlemen who accompanied the latter tried in vain to stop her. She challenged them, forced them to leave the room with her and killed all three. After this little interlude, she returned quite quietly into the ball-room again.' She was pardoned by the king eventually, her biographer says. She retired to Brussels, where she became the mistress of the Elector of Bavaria." (de Beaumont: 55)
Welf VI von Bayern
(d.1191)
Husband of: Uta of Calw.
"In most cases spouses resigned themselves to reality and lived together or separate. Uta of Calw, the wife of Duke Welf VI (d.1191), spent most of her time on her estates beyond the Swabian Alps and had little contact with her husband, all the more 'since he felt little for her and preferred the embraces of other women.'. . . ." (Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages: 382)
References.
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