!!!Bayerischer Erbfolgekrieg

Bavarian Succession, War of the: 1) First War of the Bavarian 
(Landshut) Succession, 1504-1505: In the war over the estate of Duke 
George of Bavaria-Landshut, Maximilian I supported his 
brother-in-law Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich. His troops 
defeated an army of mercenaries at Schoenberg near Regensburg and, on 
October 17, 1504, took Kufstein. By arbitration in Cologne on July 30, 
1505, Maximilian I was rewarded Kitzbuehel, Kufstein, Rattenberg 
(then united with Tirol), the land around Lake Mondsee (including 
St. Wolfgang), Neuburg am Inn, Rannariedl, and Neuhaus an der 
Muehl, all of which became part of Upper Austria.

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2) War of the Bavarian Succession of 1778/79: When the elder 
Wittelsbach line came to an end on December 30, 1777, Joseph II 
of Austria and Karl Theodor, Elector of the Palatinate branch of the 
House of Wittelsbach, signed a treaty which provided for the exchange 
of Bavaria for the Austrian Low Countries. Karl Theodor's heir, Karl 
of Zweibruecken, did not agree to the deal, won the support of 
Prussia, and declared war against Austria. The war in Bohemia dragged 
on indecisively until peace was achieved through the mediation of 
France and Russia. In the Treaty of Teschen, Austria abandoned all 
claims to Bavarian territory and was awarded the Innviertel region.

!Literature
P. P Bernard, Joseph II and Bavaria, 1965; 
Historische Dokumentation der Eingliederung des Innviertels im Jahre 
1779, exhibition catalogue, Ried im Innkreis. 1979; K. 
Gutkas, Kaiser Joseph II., 1989.


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