MARGHERITA di BAVIERA, blessed. - Duchess of Lorraine, b. in 1373 to Roberto III, Count Palatine of the Rhine, later Emperor of Germany (1400), and Elisabetta di Hohenzollern-Nürnberg; d. at Sierck on 27 Aug. 1434. In 1393 she married Carlo II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1431), by whom she was neglected and abandoned. In suffering she sanctified herself under the guidance of Adolfo di Essen, prior of the Charterhouse of Marienflos, which she had founded near Sierck.
Phenomena of bilocation are attributed to her, especially during the battle of Champigneulles (1407). Having become a widow, she devoted herself entirely to works of charity. She was buried in the collegiate church of S. Giorgio at Nancy. She had been a friend of St. Giovanna d'Arco and of St. Coletta, whom she helped to found the Poor Clares of Pont-à-Mousson. Fr. Rader calls her blessed.