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Sep 6, 2016 · Updated 6 September, 2016 - 14:50 Natalia Klimczak. Ludwig II of Bavaria: Suicide or Murder? How Did the Swan King Meet His End? Read Later. Print. Ludwig II of Bavaria was the favorite cousin of the famous Empress Elizabeth ''Sisi'', the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph II.
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Jun 8, 2016 · 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.
Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886), also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King (der Märchenkönig), was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886.
- 10 March 1864 – 13 June 1886
- Marie of Prussia
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Jul 25, 2022 · Dr. Berhard von Gudden, who pronounced Ludwig insane and who was later found dead alongside the deposed king (Unknown Author / Public Domain) Berg Castle, located south of Munich on Lake Starnberg, served as Ludwig’s prison.
This year is the 125th anniversary of the death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. The 'fairytale king' or 'Märchenkönig" died at the age of 40 in mysterious circumstances in 1886, when his lifeless body was found floating in Lake Starnberg, south of Munich, together with the corpse of his physician.
Nov 29, 2021 · Lake Starnberg in Bavaria, where Ludwig II’s body was found in waist deep water Ludwig’s Death: the Assassination of the King of Fairytale King 24 hours after the bogus insanity certification, Ludwig was found dead at age 40.
Sep 22, 2023 · The death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria was conveniently declared to be a suicide by drowning after he had probably murdered the physician. Ludwig had been a strong swimmer, however, and the water was only waist deep when a man stood. More damning, if Ludwig had drowned, his lungs would have been full of water.
