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Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (left) with his parents and his younger brother, Prince Otto, 1860. Born at Nymphenburg Palace, [5] which is located in what is today part of central Munich, he was the elder son of Maximilian II of Bavaria and Marie of Prussia, Crown Prince and Princess of Bavaria, who became King and Queen in 1848 after the abdication of the former's father, Ludwig I, during ...
Ludwig I of Bavaria, a monument in the Walhalla. Because of King Ludwig's philhellenism, the German name for Bavaria today is spelled "Bayern" instead of "Baiern", while the German dialect spoken there has retained its original spelling "Bairisch"—note the I versus the Greek-derived Y. Ludwig was an eccentric and notoriously bad poet.
Ludwig III (Ludwig Luitpold Josef Maria Aloys Alfred; 7 January 1845 – 18 October 1921) was the last King of Bavaria, reigning from 1913 to 1918. Initially, he served in the Bavarian military as a lieutenant and went on to hold the rank of Oberleutnant during the Austro-Prussian War .
King of Bavaria: 20 March 1848: 10 March 1864: Wittelsbach: Son of Ludwig I. Ludwig II: King of Bavaria: 10 March 1864: 13 June 1886: Wittelsbach: Son of Maximilian II. Ludwig II was called the Märchenkönig (Fairy tale king). He grudgingly acceded to Bavaria becoming a component of the German Empire in 1871, was declared insane in 1886. [2 ...
[nb 1] In 1832, Ludwig's father, King Maximilian II of Bavaria, bought its ruins to replace them with the comfortable neo-Gothic palace known as Hohenschwangau Castle. Finished in 1837, the palace became his family's summer residence, and his elder son Ludwig (born 1845) spent a large part of his childhood here.
Ludwig III: Prince Regent of Bavaria 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 ...
Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), sometimes known as "Mad King Ludwig" and in German as the Märchenkönig (Fairy-tale King), was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death; Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845–1921) was the last King of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918
Initially, in Bavaria and all across Germany, many recruits flocked enthusiastically to the Army. At the outbreak of the war, King Ludwig III sent an official dispatch to Berlin, to express Bavaria's solidarity. Later Ludwig even claimed annexations for Bavaria (Alsace [citation needed] and the city of Antwerp in Belgium, to receive access to ...