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Signature. Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886), [1] also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King ( der Märchenkönig ), was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia, and Duke in Swabia. [2]
- 10 March 1864 – 13 June 1886
- Marie of Prussia
LOUIS II (in German, Ludwig II, 1845–1886; ruled 1864–1886), king of Bavaria. Louis II, popularly known as "Mad King Ludwig," came to the throne of Bavaria upon the death of his father, Maximilian II, on 10 March 1864. Louis's ill-starred rule ended with his own controversial death on 13 June 1886. "Max died too soon," wrote Louis's mother ...
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Jun 8, 2016 · Ludwig II portrait by Carl Theodor von Piloty, public domain. June 13, 2016 marks the 130th anniversary of Bavaria’s greatest unsolved mystery: the baffling death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. How did the fairy tale king – the builder of Neuschwanstein and the patron of Richard Wagner – die? Many Bavarians say he was murdered.
Louis the German [a] (c. 806 [3] [4] /810 [2] – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany, [b] was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 843 to 876 AD. Grandson of emperor Charlemagne and the third son of Louis the Pious, emperor of Francia, and his first wife, Ermengarde of Hesbaye, [5] he received the appellation Germanicus ...
- Louis the Pious
- Emma of Altdorf, (m. 827; d. 876)
Mar 22, 2024 · Louis II (born July 1, 1506—died Aug. 29, 1526, Mohács, Hung.) was the king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1516, who was the last of the Jagiełło line to rule those countries and the last king to rule all of Hungary before the Turks conquered a large portion of it. The only son of Vladislas II of Hungary and Bohemia, Louis was sickly as a ...
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Mar 22, 2024 · Louis the German unsuccessfully sought the imperial dignity and the succession in Italy for his line after the death of Lothar I’s son, the emperor Louis II; but though Louis II declared (874) in favour of Carloman, eldest son of Louis the German, as the next emperor (August 875), Charles the Bald had himself crowned by Pope John VIII after Louis II’s death in August 875.
Apr 12, 2024 · Louis I (born April 16, 778, Chasseneuil, near Poitiers, Aquitaine [now in France]—died June 20, 840, Petersau, an island in the Rhine River near Ingelheim [now in Germany]) was a Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26-year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056–1106]) was a central and controversial ...
