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The House of Wittelsbach (German: Haus Wittelsbach) is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria, the Electoral Palatinate, the Electorate of Cologne, Holland, Zeeland, Sweden (with Swedish-ruled Finland), Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Bohemia, and Greece.
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The Wittelsbachs molded the history of Bavaria, which they ruled as dukes (1180–1623), prince-electors (1623–1806), and later kings (1806–1918). Otto I von Wittelsbach, appointed by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1180, and his son Louis I, who received the Palatinate in 1214 from Emperor Frederick II von Hohenstaufen, were the founding fathers o...
The history of the Palatine Wittelsbachs is much more complicated and confused, as their territory remained fragmented throughout the early modern period, and the dynasty suffered from endless divisions. This creative chaos had its positive sides, as it guaranteed a plurality of voices and eventually secured the survival of the Wittelsbach dynasty....
Glaser, Hermann, ed. Wittelsbach und Bayern.Munich, 1980. Rall, Hans, and Marga Rall. Die Wittelsbacher in Lebensbildern. Graz, Austria, and Regensburg, Germany, 1986. Spindler, Max, ed.Handbuch der bayerischen Geschichte. 4 vols. Munich, 1967–1975. Straub, Eberhard. Die Wittelsbacher. Berlin, 1994. Wolfgang Behringer
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The House of Wittelsbach is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria, the Electoral Palatinate, the Electorate of Cologne, Holland, Zeeland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Bohemia, and Greece.
Elisabeth was born into the Ducal royal branch of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach but enjoyed an informal upbringing before marrying her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I, at 16. The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and which she found suffocating.
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Erzsébet magyar királyné (teljes nevén: Erzsébet Amália Eugénia, németül: Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie von Wittelsbach, Herzogin in Bayern, csehül: Alžběta Bavorská; München, Bajor Királyság, 1837. december 24. – Genf, Svájc, 1898. szeptember 10.) a Wittelsbach-házból származó bajor hercegnő, I. Ferenc József császár és ...
House of Wittelsbach. The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. Members of the family were rulers of Bavaria, either as Dukes, Electors or Kings, from 1180 until the revolution in 1918, after the defeat of Germany in World War I .
