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Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria
Louis VIII, known as Louis the Hunchback, was duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and the son of Louis VII the Bearded. He took the side of his father's enemies, and in 1443 he captured his own father and handed him over to the duke of Bavaria-Landshut. He died in 1445, before his father, and the Ingolstadt line ended in 1447, when the duchy passed to Bavaria-Landshut.
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