Anne of Bavaria (or of the Palatinate; ; 26 September 1329 – 2 February 1353) was

Queen of Bohemia This is a list of the royal consorts of the rulers of Bohemia. The first Duchess of Bohemia (''česká kněžna'') was St. Ludmila, while the first Queen of Bohemia (''česká královna'') was Świętosława of Poland. Some of them were (li ...

by marriage to Charles of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Anna, daughter of Otto III of Carinthia.

Life

Anna was a member of the

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. She married Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV on 11 March 1349 in the town of

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on the

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. She became the second wife of Charles after the death of his first wife, Blanche of Valois, in 1348. On 26 July 1349 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

, Anna was crowned Queen of

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. Months later she was crowned

. In 1350, Anna gave birth to a son, Wenceslaus, who died one year later, in 1351. Anna did not have more children and died herself in 1353 at the age of 23. Charles was widowed for a second time and still had no son. He then married

Anna von Schweidnitz Anna of Schweidnitz (Świdnica) (also known as Anne or Anna of Świdnica, cs, Anna Svídnická, pl, Anna Świdnicka, german: Anna von Schweidnitz und Jauer) (Świdnica, 1339 – 11 July 1362 in Prague) was Queen of Bohemia, German Queen, and ...

, who gave birth to the desired heir,

Wenceslaus, King of the Romans Wenceslaus IV (also ''Wenceslas''; cs, Václav; german: Wenzel, nicknamed "the Idle"; 26 February 136116 August 1419), also known as Wenceslaus of Luxembourg, was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death and King of Germany from 1376 until he ...

Asteroid

Asteroid 100733 Annafalcká, discovered by Czech astronomer

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at the Kleť Observatory in 1998, was named in her memory. The official was published by the

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on 12 January 2017 ().

Ancestors

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References

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