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Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. Maximilian I (17 April 1573 – 27 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he obtained the title of a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg .
Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich united Bavaria in 1503 through war and primogeniture. However, the originally Bavarian offices Kufstein , Kitzbühel and Rattenberg in Tirol were lost in 1504. In spite of the decree of 1506, Albert's oldest son William IV was compelled to grant a share in the government in 1516 to his brother Louis X , an ...
Dec 30, 2022 · Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria, Duke of Bavaria (born 14 July 1933), is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His great-grandfather King Ludwig III was the last ruling monarch of Bavaria until being deposed in 1918. Franz was born in Munich. During the Second World War, the Wittelsbachs were ...
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 ...
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria. Louis V, called the Brandenburger (May 1315 – 18 September 1361), a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg from 1323 to 1351 and as Duke of Bavaria from 1347 until his death. From 1342 he also was co-ruling Count of Tyrol by his marriage with the Meinhardiner countess Margaret .
Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich “the Wise“ (1447 – 1508) from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria. In 1506 Albert decreed that the duchy should pass according to the rules of primogeniture. Married Kunigunde of Austria (1465 – 1520) daughter of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. Louis X (1495 –1545) Duke of ...
Aug 11, 2021 · Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria was Head of the House of Wittelsbach and pretender to the former Bavarian throne from 1955 until he died in 1996. He was the eldest surviving grandson of the last reigning King of Bavaria, Ludwig III , and also the heir to the Jacobite succession.
