Anna of Bavaria (born 26 September 1329 – 2 February 1353) was a Queen consort of Bohemia. She was the daughter of Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria

Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria

Rudolf II "the blind" was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1329 to 1353....

 and Count Palatine of the Rhine, and of Anna, daughter of Otto II, Duke of Carinthia.

She was a member of the House of Wittelsbach.

Anna married Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor....

 on 11 March 1349 in the town of Bacharach

Bacharach

Bacharach is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds....

 on the Rhine. She was the second wife of Charles, since the death of his first wife, Blanche of Valois

Blanche of Valois

Blanche of Valois was the youngest daughter of Charles of Valois and his third wife Mahaut of Châtillon.-Family:Her paternal grandparents were Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. Her maternal grandparents were Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol and Marie of Brittany.Marie was a daughter of John...

 in 1348.

On 26 July 1349 in Aachen

Aachen

Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...

, Anna was crowned queen of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. Months later she was crowned Queen of Bohemia; she was seven months pregnant at the time.

In 1350, Anna gave birth to the long desired son, Wenceslaus, who died one year later, in 1351. Anna did not have more children and died in 1353 aged only twenty three.

Charles had now been widowed for a second time and still had no son. He then married Anna von Schweidnitz

Anna von Schweidnitz

Anna of Schweidnitz was Queen of Bohemia, German Queen, and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She was the third wife of Emperor Charles IV.-Biography:...

 who gave birth to a son, Wenceslaus, King of the Romans

Wenceslaus, King of the Romans

Wenceslaus ) was, by election, German King from 1376 and, by inheritance, King of Bohemia from 1378. He was the third Bohemian and second German monarch of the Luxembourg dynasty...

. His daughter, Katharine of Bohemia

Katharine of Bohemia

Catherine of Bohemia was an Electress of Brandenburg, the second daughter of Emperor Charles IV and Blanche of Valois.-Childhood and family:...

 married Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria

Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria

Rudolf IV der Stifter was a scion of the House of Habsburg and Duke of Austria and Duke of Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as Count of Tyrol from 1363 and first Duke of Carniola from 1364 until his death...

 in 1350 but had no children.
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