Editing History of Bavaria (section)

===Bavaria-Ingolstadt===
Stephen III, duke of [[Bavaria-Ingolstadt]], was renowned as a soldier rather than as a statesman. His rule saw struggles with various towns and with his brother, John of Bavaria-Munich. On his death in 1413 his son [[Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria|Louis VII]], called the Bearded, succeeded. Before his accession, this restless and quarrelsome prince had played an important part in the affairs of France, where his sister [[Isabeau de Bavière|Isabella]] had married King [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]]. About 1417 he became involved in a violent quarrel with his cousin, [[Henry XVI of Bavaria|Henry XVI of Bavaria-Landshut]], fell under both the papal and the imperial ban, and in 1439 came under attack from his son, Louis VIII the Lame. This prince, who had married a daughter of [[Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg|Frederick I of Hohenzollern]], margrave of Brandenburg, resented the favor shown by his father to an illegitimate son. Aided by [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert Achilles]], afterward margrave of Brandenburg, he took the elder Louis prisoner and compelled him to abdicate in 1443. When Louis the Lame died in 1445 his father came into the power of his implacable enemy, Henry of Bavaria-Landshut, and died in prison in 1447.