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The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria. Bavaria was ruled by several dukes and kings , partitioned and reunited, under several dynasties . Since 1918, Bavaria has been under a republican form of government, and from 1949, Bavaria has been a democratic state in the Federal Republic of Germany .
The Kingdom of Bavaria (German: Königreich Bayern; Bavarian: Kinereich Bayern; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.
The King of Bavaria (German: König von Bayern) was a title held by the hereditary Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria in the state known as the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1805 until 1918, when the kingdom was abolished. It was the second time Bavaria was a kingdom, almost a thousand years after the short-lived Carolingian kingdom of Bavaria.
NamePortraitTitleReign StartElector of the Palatinate King of ...17991825King of Bavaria18251848King of Bavaria18481864King of Bavaria18641886The following is a list of monarchs during the history of Bavaria. Bavaria was ruled by several dukes and kings, partitioned and reunited, under several dynasties. Since 1918, Bavaria has been under a republican form of government, and from 1949, Bavaria has been a democratic state in the Federal Republic of Germany.
From King Maximilian II and his son King Ludwig II to the promotion of art and construction of the regency in the residence city of Munich, showing the industrialisation in Bavaria until the end of the monarchy and beyond, this exhibition gives an insight into the House of Wittelsbach to the present time.
Initially a powerful duchy in the Holy Roman empire, Bavaria became a moderately powerful kingdom under the reforms of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, and played its part in Central European politics until the conclusion of the First World War saw the kingdom abolished and a federal Germany formed, of which it was a constituent part.
The dynasty also had some links to the British Monarchy. King James I’s daughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia, married Frederick Wittelsbach, Elector Palatine (which was later joined to Bavaria), and their grandson was King George I. Also since the 19th century the Jacobite rights to the throne of England have been passed to the Wittelsbach family.
