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AGNES BERNAUER (d. 1435)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGNES BERNAUER (d. 1435)  , daughter of an Augsburg baker, was secretly married about 1432 to Albert (1401—1460), son of Ernest, duke of Bavaria-Munich . Ignorant of the fact that this union was a lawful one, Ernest urged his son to marry, and reproached him with his connexion with
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Agnes . Albert then declared she was his lawful wife; and subsequently, during his absence, she was seized by order of Duke Ernest and condemned to
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death for
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witchcraft . On the 12th of
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October 1435 she was drowned in the Danube near
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Straubing, in which
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town her remains were afterwards buried by Albert . This story lived long in the memory of the
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people, and its chief
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interest lies in its
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literary associations . It has afforded material for several dramas, and Adolf B6ttger, Friedrich Ilcbbcl and
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Otto Ludwig have each written one entitled Agnes Bernauer .

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