State · 1353 – 1503
Bavaria-Landshut
A state of 1353 – 1503 — 150 years in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 6 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 150 years
- 1353 – 1503
- Rulers
- 6
- the Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen III of Bavaria | 1353 – 1375 | 22 years | ending not on record | |
| John II of Bavaria | 1353 – 1375 | 22 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Frederick | 1353 – 1375 | 22 years | ending not on record | sibling |
| Henry XVI of Bavaria | 1393 – 1450 | 57 years | ending not on record | child |
| Louis IX of Bavaria | 1450 – 1479 | 29 years | ending not on record | child |
| George, Duke of Bavaria | 1479 – 1503 | 24 years | ending not on record | child |
6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1353 – 1503. Median reign 23 years. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedBanner of Bavaria-Landshut · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedWappen Kurpfalz · CC BY 3.0
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood150 years
stood longer than 55% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median24 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 72% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 150
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1338 – 1518, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1428, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q677490 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.