Bernauer

Bernauer, AGNES, the beautiful daughter of a poor surgeon of Augsburg, secretly married, in 1432, to Duke Albrecht of Bavaria, only son of the reigning Duke Ernst. Their happiness was undisturbed, till Albrecht's father, becoming aware of his son's attachment, had the knightly lists shut against him, as one who was living with a woman in licentiousness. Albrecht now made Agnes be openly honoured as Duchess of Bavaria. But in her husband's absence, Duke Ernst had Agnes tried for sorcery, condemned for having bewitched Albrecht, and drowned in the Danube in the presence of the whole people, October 12, 1435. Albrecht took up arms against his father; but after a year of war he was prevailed on to return to his father's court, and ultimately consented to marry Anna of Brunswick.