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Agnes Bernauer

1410 - 1435

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Agnes Bernauer (c. 1410 – 12 October 1435) was the mistress and perhaps also the first wife of Albert, later Albert III, Duke of Bavaria. Because his father, Ernest, ruling Duke of Bavaria at the time, considered this liaison with a commoner unbefitting his son's social standing, he clashed with his son over the matter and finally arranged to have Agnes condemned for witchcraft and drowned in the Danube in 1435. Her life and death have been depicted in numerous literary works, the most well known being Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy of the same name and the folk musical Die Bernauerin by the composer Carl Orff. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Agnes Bernauer is the 10,851st most popular politician (down from 10,640th in 2019), the 3,131st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,144th in 2019) and the 912th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Agnes Bernauer ranks 10,851 out of 19,576. Before her are Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Huzziya I, Muqtada al-Sadr, Jafar Khan, Carlo Ruzzini, and Hermann Esser. After her are Ino Anastasia, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Enrichetta d'Este, Rudolf Beran, Didier Reynders, and Gaius Memmius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1410, Agnes Bernauer ranks 9. Before her are Lekë Dukagjini, Stefan Lochner, Domenico Veneziano, William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, Giorgio da Sebenico, and Ibn Taghribirdi. After her is Pedro Tafur. Among people deceased in 1435, Agnes Bernauer ranks 11. Before her are Eleanor of Alburquerque, Hermann II, Count of Celje, Qara Osman, Sigismund Korybut, William III, Duke of Bavaria, and Master Francke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Agnes Bernauer ranks 3,133 out of 7,253. Before her are Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Albrecht Adam (1786), Heinrich von Bellegarde (1756), Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), and Hermann Esser (1900). After her are Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), Josef Fischer (1865), Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Agnes Bernauer ranks 912. Before her are Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (1901), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1648), Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), and Hermann Esser (1900). After her are Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), Johann Niemann (1913), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1787), Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747), Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1814), and Bernhard Vogel (1932).

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