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Aug 18, 2021 · Franz, Duke of Bavaria, is the current Head of the House of Wittelsbach and Pretender to the former throne of Bavaria. He is also the current heir to the Jacobite Succession. Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria, Prince of Bavaria was born in Munich on July 14, 1933, the son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria and Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan.
Franz, Duke of Bavaria, the current head of the Royal House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria, was born on July 14, 1933 in Munich, Germany. His parents were Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria and Countess Maria Drascovich whose father belonged to the old Croatian nobility of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and whose mother ...
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Franz was born on 14 July 1933 in Munich, the son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, and his morganatic wife, Countess Maria Draskovich of Trakostjan of the House of Drašković, a Croatian noble family. On 18 May 1949, when Franz was 15, his grandfather Crown Prince Rupprecht recognised the marriage of Franz's parents as dynastic, and Franz became a prin...
After the war, Franz received his secondary education at the Benedictine Abbey of Ettal. He then studied business management at the University of Munich and in Zurich. Franz developed a passion for collecting modern art. Items from his private collection are on permanent loan to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.He is also an honorary trustee of...
His 80th birthday party, in 2013, was held at the Schleissheim Palace near Munich. The party was attended by 2,500 guests,including the then-incumbent Minister-President of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer. In 2016, he became the donor of the project of restoration of the Statue of St. John of Nepomuk in Divina, Slovakia, realised under auspices of the Emba...
Franz has never married. The heir presumptive to the headship of the House of Wittelsbach is his brother Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria. Because Max has five daughters but no sons, he is followed in the line of succession by his and Franz's first cousin (second cousin in the male line) Prince Luitpoldand, in the next generation, by the latter's son Pr...
Titles and styles
Born as a non dynastic descendant of the the House of Wittelsbach, at birth Franz was simply styled Franz Prinz von Bayern, Prinz von Bayern being his last name, without the right to a royal title (Prince of Bavaria).He became His Royal Highness Prince Franz of Bavaria on 18 May 1949 when his parents marriage was recognised as dynastic, and His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Bavaria when his father became head of the House of Wittelsbach in 1955. As head of House of Wittelsbach, Fran...
Honours
1. Germany: Commander's cross (Großes Verdienstkreuz) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2. Vatican: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre 3. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Protector Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1st Class 4. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit 5. Romania: Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 6. House of Habsburg: Knight of th...
Franz succeeded as head of the House of Wittelsbach, and as pretender to the Bavarian throne, on the death of his father in 1996. He lives at the Nymphenburg Palace. Franz is also the current heir-general of King Charles I of England and Scotland, and thus as "Francis II" is considered by Jacobites to be the legitimate heir of the Stuart kings ...
Biography. Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, styled as His Royal Highness The Duke of Bavaria, is head of the Wittelsbach family, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His surname at birth was Prinz von Bayern (English: Prince of Bavaria). In 1997, after the death of his father, he changed his surname to Herzog ...
Jul 25, 2013 · The aristocrat never married and lives alone in the large Nymphenburg palace. Around 2,500 of Bavaria's richest, most powerful and influential guests on hand to pay tribute to the Duke at his ...
