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Bavaria however maintained a degree of autonomy in peacetime, with its own two (later three) army corps remaining outside the Prussian order of battle. [11] The Bavarian infantry and cavalry regiments retained their historic light blue and green uniforms, distinctive from the Prussian model adopted throughout most of the army.
Lower Bavaria 1347–1353: Otto VII the Lazy 1341–1375–1379 Upper Bavaria 1347–1351: Louis I of Brzeg 1321–1398: Adolf of the Palatinate 1300–1327: Margaret Maultasch of Tyrol 1318–1369: Louis IX of Brandenburg 1315–1347–1361: Barnabò Visconti 1321–1385: Stephen II 1319–1353–1375 Lower Bavaria 1347–1353: Elisabeth of ...
Franz Josef Strauss, the Minister-President of Bavaria from 1978 to 1988, was a strong supporter of the Bavarian monarchy. The pretenders to the throne of Bavaria since the end of the monarchy in 1918 have been: Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845–1921), 1918–1921; Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869–1955), 1921–1955
The Bavarian dynasty was those kings of the Lombards who were descended from Garibald I, the Agilolfing duke of Bavaria. They came to rule the Lombards through Garibald's daughter Theodelinda , who married the Lombard king Authari in 588.
King of Bavaria 1913: 1918 Wittelsbach: His Majesty Ludwig, King of Bavaria, Duke of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Son of Prince Regent Luitpold and grandson of Ludwig I. Prince Regent from 1912 until 1913, then King of Bavaria, he lost his throne in the German Revolution at the end of World War I.
A further large group were German-speakers from Hungary. In the following decades, Sudeten Germans were acknowledged as Bavaria's fourth largest ethnic group, along with Bavarians, Franconians, and Swabians. [16] Bavaria is home to the Bavarian Party, founded in 1946, whose goal is to establish an independent Bavarian state. [17]
Royal Bavarian coat of arms The Electorate of Bavaria including the Electorate of Palatinate (light green, in the old borders around 1800); the new Kingdom of Bavaria (1816, dark green line, with slightly shifted and rounded Palatinate territory and after the loss of the areas of the Duchy of Berg further north on the Rhine, but expanded to ...
The origins of the rise of Bavarian nationalism as a strong political movement were in the Austro-Prussian War and its aftermath. [6] Bavaria was politically and culturally closer to Catholic Austria than Protestant Prussia, and the Bavarians shared with the Austrians a common contempt towards the Prussians, which led Bavaria to ally with Austria in the war. [6]