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The Wittelsbach State Foundation received the Wittelsbach family's art treasures acquired before 1804 and has since been the owner, although not the manager, of a large part of the holdings of the ancient and classical art museums in Munich, while more recent art collections came into the possession of the compensation fund, into which most of ...
House of Stuart Queen of Bohemia: Frederick V of the Palatinate King of Bohemia 1596–1632 House of Wittelsbach-Palatinate: Sophia Princess Sophia of the Palatinate 1630–1714 Electress of Hanover: Ernest Augustus Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 1629–1698 House of Hanover: Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle 1666–1726
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern (born 14 July 1933), commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His great-grandfather King Ludwig III was the last ruling monarch of Bavaria, being deposed in 1918. Franz was born in Munich.
In 1838 he acquired Unterwittelsbach Castle (today housing a "Sisi" museum) near the site of Burg Wittelsbach, the ancestral seat of the House of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph died in Munich . He and his wife are buried in the family crypt in Tegernsee Abbey , a former monastery which Ludovika's father, King Maximilian I Joseph, had acquired ...
The heir presumptive to the headship of the House of Wittelsbach is his brother Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria. Because Max has five daughters but no sons, he is followed in the line of succession by his and Franz's first cousin (and second cousin in the male line) Prince Luitpold. [5] The current line of succession to the headship of the family is:
The House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was the ruling dynasty of Sweden from 1654 to 1720. By this point it had splintered into several different houses. The Royal House of Sweden was represented by the branch Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg. [1] Zweibrücken Castle
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
The members of the family used the title Duke or Duchess in Bavaria, with the style of Royal Highness. If we take 1799 as the beginning of somewhat a House of its own, the heads of this house were: William (1799–1837), previously the Count Palatinate of Gelnhausen since 1789; Pius August (1837), only son of William, died seven months after ...