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Elisabeth was a daughter of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine in his marriage to Claude of Valois. On 9 February 1595, in Nancy, she married her cousin Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. The marriage was arranged to confirm the alliance between the two Catholic dynasties of Bavaria and Lorraine and give Bavaria connections to France and Tuscany, her ...
Elisabeth was the longest reigning Empress of Austria at 44 years. Born Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie on 24 December 1837 in Munich, Bavaria, she was the third child and second daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, the half-sister of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Here are five things you may not have known about Austria’s penultimate empress; for even more trivia on Sissi, stay tuned for part 2 (coming soon!) 1. She wasn’t intended to marry Emperor Franz Josef. Born on Christmas Eve, 1837, the future empress grew up between Munich and Possenhofen castle on lake Starnberg, Bavaria.
Biography. Born as Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, daughter of Karl-Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, and Maria-Josepha of Portugal; married Albert I, King of the Belgians (q.v.) in 1900; mother of Leopold III.
Elisabeth of Bavaria (1478 – 15 September 1504) was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and, by marriage, Electress of the Palatinate. After her father's death, she was also Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut . She was the daughter of Duke George the Rich and his wife Hedwig Jagiellonica. After the death of her brother Louis in 1496, the Duchy of ...
On 27 June 1328 Elisabeth married Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria, son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrix of Silesia-Glogau. The couple had three sons and a daughter, they were: Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1337–26 September 1413, Niederschönfeld). Frederick of Bavaria-Landshut (1339–4 December 1393, Budweis).
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians (1876-1965) was the daughter ofCharles-Theodore Wittelsbach, Duke in Bavaria (1839–1909) and of Marie-Jose of Bragance (1857–1943), Infanta of Portugal. Without a direct relation to the Bavarian royal
