- Otto Ii Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria
Otto II of Bavaria (German: "Otto II der Erlauchte, Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein") (Kelheim, 7 April 1206 - 29 November 1253, Landshut) was the Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (see Palatinate). He was a son of Louis I and Ludmila of Bohemia and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. - Otto I Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria
Duke Otto I of Bavaria (1117, Kelheim - 11 July 1183, Pfullendorf, (German: "Otto I Wittelsbach, Herzog von Bayern"), since 1180 the first Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria. Duke Otto I was a son of Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach and a brother of Conrad I, Archbishop of Mainz (1161-1165 and 1183-1200) who was as Conrad III also Archbishop of Salzburg (1177-1183). - Conrad Of Wittelsbach
Conrad of Wittelsbach (died 25 October 1200) was the Archbishop of Mainz (as Conrad I) and Archchancellor of Germany from 20 June 1161 to 1165 and again from 1183 to his death. He was also a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. The son of Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach, and brother of Otto I of Bavaria, he studied in Salzburg and Paris. - Agnes Of Wittelsbach
Agnes of Wittelsbach (1335-Nov. 11, 1352) was a Bavarian nun from Munich. The daughter of King Louis IV of Bavaria, after his death she was brought up by educated nuns. She rejected a marriage with a nobleman chosen by her relatives and instead entered a cloister. Always sickly, the Agnes died in 1352. - Günther von Schwarzburg
Günther von Schwarzburg, German king, was a descendant of the counts of Schwarzburg and the younger son of Henry VII, count of Blankenburg. He distinguished himself as a soldier, and rendered good service to the Emperor Louis IV on whose death in 1347 he was offered the German throne, after it had been refused by Edward III of England. He was elected German king at Frankfurt on January 30 1349 by four of the electors, … - Elisabeth Of Bavaria
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 - September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle. - House Of Luxembourg
The House of Luxembourg was a medieval Holy Roman Empire noble family. In 1308 Henry, count of Luxemburg became German king, his son John of Luxembourg shortly afterwards received the Bohemian crown. The dynasty's rule in the Holy Roman Empire was interrupted by the Wittelsbach twice. With the death of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor the dynasty died out and was succeeded by the Habsburg. - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Louis IV of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach (1282 – October 11 1347) was duke of Bavaria from 1294/1301 together with his brother Rudolf I, also count of the Palatinate until 1329 and, German king since 1314 and crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in 1328. Louis died on October 11, 1347 when he suffered a stroke during a bear-hunt in Puch near Fürstenfeldbruck. He is buried in the Frauenkirche in Munich. - François de Cuvilliés
François de Cuvilliés was a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect who was instrumental in bringing the Rococo style to the Wittelsbach court at Munich and to Central Europe in general. Cuvilliés was so diminutive in stature that it was as a court dwarf he first came to the notice of the currently exiled Max Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, who detected the young dwarf's aptitude and had him tutored in mathematics, … - Maximilian Ii Emanuel Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector ("Kurfürst") of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last Governor of the Spanish Netherlands and duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements. He was born in Munich to Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d.1676). - Louis Vi The Roman
Louis VI the Roman (May 7, 1328 - May 17, 1365) was the first son of Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland and a member of the House of Wittelsbach. Louis VI was Duke of Bavaria (1347-1365) and Margrave of Brandenburg (1351-1365). He also served as Prince-elector of Brandenburg since 1356. Louis was born at Rome when his parents travelled there for his father's coronation. - Maria Anna Of Austria
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. Born in Graz, her parents were Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor of Habsburg and Maria Anna of Bavaria. She married Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria on the 15 July 1635 in Vienna, was the mother to Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria ("de Bavière (Wittelsbach)") and Maximilian Philip ("Landgrave, de Bavière (Wittelsbach), de Leuchtenberg"). - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Emperor Charles VII Albert (Brussels August 6, 1697 - January 20, 1745 in Munich), a member of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from January 24, 1742 until his death in 1745. - Ferdinand Maria Elector of Bavaria
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector ("Kurfürst") of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. He was born in Munich. He was the eldest son of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria - whom he succeeded, and his second wife Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of the emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. He was crowned on October 31, 1654. His absolutistic style of leadership became a benchmark for the rest of Germany. - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian I, Elector and Duke of Bavaria, called "the Great,", was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector ("Kurfürst") of the Holy Roman Empire. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). - Charles X Gustav Of Sweden
Charles X Gustav (November 8, 1622 - February 13, 1660), was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg and Princess Catherine of Sweden, daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden and half-sister of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1611-32). He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who bore his son and successor, Charles XI (1660-97). - Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach
Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach (c. 1083-4 August 1156) was a descendant of Count Otto II of Scheyern and Richgard of Weimar-Istrien. Otto entitled himself after Wittelsbach Castle near Aichach from 1116 onwards, served Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and was Count palatine of Bavaria since 1120. Otto's sons with Heilika of Lengenfeld-Pettendorf were Otto I, the first Wittelsbach duke of Bavaria and Conrad of Wittelsbach, archbishop of Mainz and Salzburg. - Louis V, Duke of Bavaria
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, called the Brandenburger (May 1315 - 18 September 1361 in Zorneding near Munich) was Duke of Bavaria and as Louis I also Margrave of Brandenburg and Count of Tyrol. Louis V was the eldest son of Emperor Louis IV and his first wife Beatrix von Silesia-Glogau. He was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. Louis V was Margrave of Brandenburg from 1323 onwards when he received the country as a fiefdom from his father. - Enrico Zuccalli
Enrico Zuccalli, ("Johann Heinrich Zuccalli", * ca. 1642 in Roveredo (Switzerland), † 8 March 1724 in Munich) was a Swiss architect who worked for the Wittelsbach regents of Bavaria and Cologne. Since 1669 Zuccalli lived in Munich and became a major representant of the introduction of Italian baroque architecture in Germany. - Henriette Mendel
Henriette Mendel, Baroness von Wallersee Henriette Mendel was born Auguste Henriette Mendel in Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, the daughter of Adam Mendel and of Anna Sophie Müller. In English she is usually known as Henrietta Mendel. She was an actress at Darmstadt's "Großherzoglich Hessischem Hoftheater" when she and Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria fell in love. - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria
Duke Louis I of Bavaria (German: "Ludwig I der Kelheimer, Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein") (Kelheim, 23 December, 1173 - 15 September 1231 in Kelheim) was the Duke of Bavaria in 1183 and Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1214. He was a son of Otto I and his wife Agnes of Loon - Rupert Of Germany
Rupert of Germany of the house of Wittelsbach (5 May 1352 - 18 May 1410), he was the son of Rupert II, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and Beatrix of Sicily. Rupert was Elector Palatine from 1398 and German King from 1400 until his death. - Frederick III, Elector Palatine
Frederick III the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (February 14, 1515 - October 26, 1576) was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach, branch Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. He inherited the Palatinate from the childless Elector Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine ("Ottheinrich") in 1559. He was a devout convert to Calvinism, and made Calvinism the official religion of his domain. Under his supervision the Heidelberg Catechism was constructed. - Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
Duke Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich (15 December 1447 in Munich - 18 March 1508 in Munich),, from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria. Albert was a son of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria and Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen-Einbeck. After the death of his older brother John IV, Duke of Bavaria he gave up his spiritual career and returned from Pavia to Munich. When his brothers Christoph and Wolfgang had resigned Albert became sole duke, … - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine
Frederick IV (15 April 1282, Gondreville - 23 August 1329, in Paris), called the Fighter, was the duke of Lorraine from 1312 to his death. He was the son and successor of Theobald II and Isabella of Rumigny. On 18 October 1314, at the Diet of Frankfurt, the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire failed to elect as successor to Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, either the Hapsburg claimant, Frederick the Handsome, the duke of Austria, or the Wittelsbach, … - William I, Duke of Bavaria
William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing (Frankfurt am Main, May 12 1330 - April 15 1389, Le Quesnoy), was the second son of the emperor Louis IV the Bavarian from his second wife Margaret of Holland and Hainaut. He was also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland. In 1345 William's father was conferring Hainaut, Holland, … - Louis VI, Elector Palatine
Louis VI, Elector Palatine (Simmern, 4 July 1539 - 22 October 1583, Heidelberg) was an Elector from the branch of Palatinate-Simmern of the house of Wittelsbach. He was the elder son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine and Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Unlike his father, he gave preference to Lutheranism over Calvinism, purging Calvinists from positions at the University of Heidelberg. - Maximilian von Montgelas
Maximilian Josef Garnerin, Count von Montgelas (september 12, 1759 - june 14, 1838) was a Bavarian statesman, from a noble family in Savoy. His father John Sigmund Garnerin, Baron Montgelas, entered the military service of Maximilian III, Elector of Bavaria, and married the Countess Ursula von Trauner. Maximilian Josef, their eldest son, was born in the Bavarian capital Munich on the September 10, 1759. He was educated successively at Nancy, Strasbourg and Ingolstadt. - Elizabeth Charlotte Princess Palatine
Elizabeth Charlotte, Countess Palatine of Simmern (Heidelberg, May 27, 1652 - October 9 or December 8, 1722 at the Château of Saint-Cloud near Paris), known in French as "la princesse Palatine" and in German as "Liselotte von der Pfalz", was a princess of the electoral family of the Palatinate who became Duchess of Orléans by her marriage to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV of France, … - Otto III, Duke of Bavaria
Otto III of Bavaria, member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 to 1312 and as Béla V also king of Hungary between 1305 and 1307. His parents were Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria and Elizabeth of Hungary. Otto succeeded his father in 1290 as duke of Lower Bavaria, together with his younger brothers Louis III and Stephen I. In opposition to Habsburg Otto tried to regain Styria which Bavaria had lost in 1180. - Otto V, Duke of Bavaria
Otto V, Duke of Bavaria, was duke of Bavaria and margrave-elector of Brandenburg. Otto was the fourth son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor with his second wife Margaret II of Avesnes, countess of Hainaut and Holland. Jointly duke of Bavaria with his five brothers in 1347, he and his brothers Louis V and Louis VI became joint dukes of Upper Bavaria after the partition of Bavaria in 1349. - Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria
Duke Stephen II of Bavaria (1319-13 May 1375, Landshut) (German: "Stephan II mit der Hafte, Herzog von Bayern"), since 1347 Duke of Bavaria. He was the second son of Emperor Louis IV and Beatrix von Silesia-Glogau and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. When his father died in 1347, Stephen succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers. - Rupert II, Elector Palatine
Rupert II of the Rhine (12 May 1325, Amberg - 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398. He was the elder son of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Countess Irmengard von Öttingen. On 13 February 1338 the Palatinate was divided between Rupert II and his uncle Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria. After the death of his other uncle, the Elector Rupert I (who had succeeded Rudolf II), … - Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
Rudolf I of Bavaria (October 4 1274, Basle - August 12 1319), (German: "Rudolf I, Herzog von Bayern, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein"), since 1294 he was the Duke of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. Rudolf was the son of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, and Mechthild (Matilda), a daughter of King Rudolph I. - Clemens August Of Bavaria
Clemens August of Bavaria (17 August 1700-6 February 1761), was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria and Archbishop-Elector of Cologne. - Caroline Augusta Of Bavaria
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria was daughter of Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria (1756-1825) and his wife, Marie Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765-1796). She was a member of the House of Wittelsbach. On 8 June 1808, at Munich, she married Prince William of Württemberg (1781-1864). They divorced in 1814. On October 29, 1816 she married with Francis I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia. They had no children. - Maria Josepha Of Bavaria
Maria Josepha, Princess of Bavaria, was the daughter of Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria and Maria Amalia of Austria. She was a member of the house of Wittelsbach. Born on 30 March 1739 in Munich, Bavaria, on 23 January 1765, she married the widowed Joseph, King of the Romans, and heir of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, in Schönbrunn Palace. Upon her father-in-law's death on 18 August 1765, Maria Josepha became, in name, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. - Sigismund Of Bavaria
Sigismund of Bavaria (26 July 1439 - 1 February 1501) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. Sigismund was a son of Albert the Pious of Bavaria with Duchess Anna of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Sigismund was Duke of Bavaria from 1460-1467, until 1463 together with his brother John IV, Duke of Bavaria. In 1467 he resigned and then kept only Bavaria-Dachau as his domain until his death. In 1468 the foundation stone of the Frauenkirche in Munich was laid by Sigismund. - Karl Iii Philip Elector Palatine
Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach. He was Elector Palatine, Count of Palatinate-Neuburg, and Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1716 to 1742 - Otto Henry Elector Palatine
Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, (Amberg, 10 April 1502 - 12 February 1559 in Heidelberg) a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1559 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Rupert, Count Palatine, third son of Philip, Elector Palatine; and of Elizabeth of Bavaria-Landshut, daughter of George of Bavaria.
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