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Pretender (s) Franz, Duke of Bavaria. The Crown of Bavaria. The King of Bavaria ( German: König von Bayern) was a title held by the hereditary Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria in the state known as the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1805 until 1918, when the kingdom was abolished. It was the second time Bavaria was a kingdom, almost a thousand years ...
Stephen was born in Landshut, the son of Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria and Elizabeth of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina . His mother introduced the name Stephen onto the Wittelsbach dynasty with her youngest son. She was a sister of Stephen V of Hungary, and may have named her son after him.
Conrad I, Duke of Bavaria. Conrad I ( c. 1020 – 5 December 1055), also known as Cuno or Kuno, was the duke of Bavaria from 1049 to 1053. He was of the Ezzonen family, his parents being Liudolf, Count of Zütphen and eldest son of Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lorraine, and Matilda. For this, he is sometimes called Conrad of Zutphen .
Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (4 December 1808 – 15 November 1888), known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a junior branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, [1] and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music. He is most famous today as the father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") and great-grandfather ...
Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria. Arnulf II (birth unknown; died 14 July 937), also known as the Bad ( German: der Schlimme ), the Evil ( der Böse) or the Wicked, a member of the Luitpolding dynasty, held the title of Duke of Bavaria from about 907 until his death in 937. He is numbered in succession to Arnulf of Carinthia, counted as Arnulf I.
Apr 26, 2022 · Duke Eberhard and Otto I: After Arnulf's death in 937 Eberhard Duke of Bavaria, but soon came into conflict with King Otto I, who did not want to accept the contractually assured special status of Bavaria in the Reichsverband. Otto broke the Treaty of 921 between Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and Henry I was closed.
Welf was the oldest son of Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Judith of Flanders. In 1088 [4] or 1089, [5] when Welf was still a teenager, he married Matilda of Tuscany , [3] who was more than twenty years older than him, in order to strengthen the relation between his family and the pope during the Investiture Controversy between king and ...