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Albert IV of Bavaria-Munich “the Wise“ (1447 – 1508) from 1467 Duke of Bavaria-Munich, from 1503 Duke of the reunited Bavaria. In 1506 Albert decreed that the duchy should pass according to the rules of primogeniture. Married Kunigunde of Austria (1465 – 1520) daughter of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. Louis X (1495 –1545) Duke of ...
In 1813 Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria acquired a former monastery after its secularisation, the Franconian Banz Abbey. His grandson Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria purchased Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg which became his major residence and where his children, notably the later Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of Hungary ("Sisi"), were ...
The chapter discusses a unique project to revive and redefine religious eremitism within an explicitly courtly and Counter-Reformation context. The focus is on the large estate at Schleissheim, created by Wilhelm V of Bavaria (1548–1626) after his
Namely, by the middle of the fifteenth century the Wittelsbachs had divided Bavaria into four duchies and only after the War of Landshut Succession (1503-5) were the two remaining Duchies of Bavaria-Munich and BavariaLandshut reunified under Duke Albrecht IV, grandfather of Duke Albrecht V.30 Even sixty years later these accounts emphasised the legitimacy of the Munich Wittelsbachs in Bavaria ...
Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, full German name: Wilhelm, Herzog in Bayern (born 10 November 1752 in Gelnhausen, Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen; died 8 January 1837 in Landshut or Bamberg, Kingdom of Bavaria) was Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen between 1789 and 1799 and first Duke in Bavaria from 16 February 1799 until his death in 1837.
Son of Duke Albrecht V. Born at Munich, 29 September, 1548; died at Schlessheim, 7 February, 1626. He studied in 1563 at the University of Ingolstadt, but left on account of an outbreak of the pest. Nevertheless, he continued his studies elsewhere until 1568, and retained throughout life a ...
The Grottenhof is a small garden surrounded by painted loggias in the Munich Residence, a palace that served as the seat of the Wittelsbach Dukes of Bavaria beginning in the sixteenth century. Completed between 1582 and 1589, the garden contains an elaborate grottoed fountain, sculpture, and paintings based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses .
