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5 days ago · Description. Also known as. English. Louis IV of Bavaria. Duke of Bavaria and Holly Roman Emperor. Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV. Ludwig IV. der Bayern. the Bavarian.
It was Louis’s fate to repeatedly come up with inadequate resources against adversaries who were talented and powerful. Louis IV - Imperial Crown, German King, Papal Coronation: When Duke Leopold died in February 1326, Louis boldly opposed the pope in Italy itself. Supported by the Ghibellines, he accepted the iron crown of Lombardy in Milan ...
1281-1347. Other dates. 1314-1347 (ruled) Biography. Duke of Upper Bavaria (from 1294) and of united Bavaria (1340–47), German king (from 1314) and Holy Roman emperor (1328–47); also Count of Hainault and Holland (1346-1347); first of the Wittelsbach line of German emperors. His reign was marked by incessant diplomatic and military ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Louis I was a Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26-year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056–1106]) was a central and controversial stage in the Carolingian experiment to fashion a new European society.
Nov 5, 2023 · Louis IV (German: Ludwig ; 1 April 1282 – 11 October 1347), called the Bavarian (Ludwig der Bayer , Latin: Ludovicus Bavarus ), was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328 until his death in 1347.
Louis IV was the son of Louis III, Elector Palatine and his second wife Matilda of Savoy. [1] His mother was a fourth-generation descendant of Thomas III of Piedmont (1248 - 1282), the eldest son of Thomas II of Savoy. [citation needed] From the death of Louis III in 1436 until 1442, Louis IV ruled under guardianship of his uncle, Count ...
Louis IV, called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328. Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294/1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323, as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, and he ...
