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Louis the Strict (German: Ludwig der Strenge) (13 April 1229 – 2 February 1294) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. He is known as Louis II or Louis VI following an alternative numbering. Born in Heidelberg, he was a son of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes of the Palatinate.
May 14, 2024 · Louis II (born August 25, 1845, Nymphenburg Palace, Munich—died June 13, 1886, Starnberger See, Bavaria) was an eccentric king of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886 and an admirer and patron of the composer Richard Wagner. He brought his territories into the newly founded German Empire (1871) but concerned himself only intermittently with affairs of ...
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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]
Jul 25, 2022 · Ludwig II of Bavaria: The Tragic Tale of the Swan King. by Roisin Everard July 25, 2022. 1. “I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and others”, stated King Ludwig II of Bavaria. What happened when the king’s fairy-tale world and his role as monarch collided?
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 ...
Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 to 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, was Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323, and Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, and became Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340. He was the last Bavarian to be a king of Germany until 1742.
Louis II (born c. 804, Aquitaine?, Fr.—died Aug. 28, 876, Frankfurt) was the king of the East Franks, who ruled lands from which the German state later evolved. The third son of the Carolingian emperor Louis I the Pious, Louis the German was assigned Bavaria at the partition of the empire in 817.
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