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House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and Deggendorf.
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- Franz von Bayern
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern (born 14...
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Stammliste der Wittelsbacher mit den in der Wikipedia vertretenen Personen und wichtigen ... Franz Wittelsbach Prinz von Bayern (Franz Hans Leopold Maria Zapletal) (1919–1999) ⚭ Irene Repnak (1919–1995) Maria (1942–2022) Georg (1945–2020) Jutta ...
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Franz was born on 14 July 1933 in Munich, as the third child and elder son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, and his first wife, Countess Maria (Marita) Draskovich of Trakostjan, member of the House of Drašković, an old Croatian noble family. As Maria's family didn't belong to the small circle of reigning or former reigning families, his parents' marri...
Franz developed a passion for modern art and started to collect contemporary German art. He brought his own important art collection with early works by Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo as well as numerous contemporary German painters such as Jörg Immendorff and Sigmar Polke on permanent loan to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, ...
The respective head of the House of Wittelsbach appoints the board of directors of the foundation Wittelsbach Compensation Fund, into which most of the possessions from the former Wittelsbach House Property Fund were transferred in 1923, including art treasures and collections (in particular the art collection of King Ludwig I, today mostly in the ...
Franz has had a life partner since 1980, Thomas Greinwald, although they have never married. In August 2011, the duke appeared at Prince George Frederick of Prussia's wedding, accompanied by Greinwald and his first cousin once removed – and future heir – Prince Ludwig. They first appeared publicly as a couple in Munich in 2023. The heir presumptive...
Titles and styles
Franz is traditionally styled as His Royal Highness the Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Franz was styled Prinz von Bayern at birth. In 1996, after the death of his father, he changed his style to Herzog von Bayern('Duke of Bavaria').
Honours
1. Germany: Commander's cross (Großes Verdienstkreuz) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2. Vatican: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre 3. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Protector Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1st Class 4. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit 5. Romania: Knight Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 6. House of Habsburg: Knigh...
- 8 July 1996 – present
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Herkunft Meistbeachtete Theorie. Die genaue Herkunft der Wittelsbacher ist ungeklärt. Die auch von Mitgliedern der Familie Wittelsbach und vielen Wissenschaftlern heute meistbeachtete Theorie beruht auf der 1931 in Österreich veröffentlichten Genealogie Otto Freiherr von Dungerns, bei dem die Geschichte der Familie um das Jahr 1000 mit einem Grafen Otto I. von Scheyern beginnt, der in ...
house of Wittelsbach, German noble family that provided rulers of Bavaria and of the Rhenish Palatinate until the 20th century. The name was taken from the castle of Wittelsbach, which formerly stood near Aichach on the Paar in Bavaria. In 1124, Otto V, count of Scheyern (died 1155), removed the residence of his family to Wittelsbach and called himself by this name. His son, Otto VI, after ...
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2. Mai 2018 · Das Haus Wittelsbach herrschte 738 Jahre lang über Bayern. Mit der Proklamation des Freistaats 1918 hat die Familie offiziell keinen politischen Einfluss mehr.
8. Mai 2018 · wittelsbach dynasty (bavaria). The Wittelsbachs were one of the more important dynasties in European history. They ruled Bavaria (1180 – 1918), the Palatinate (1214 – 1918), and Electoral Cologne (1583 – 1761), as well as half a dozen prince-bishoprics (Freising, Li è ege, M ü nster, Osnabr ü ck, Paderborn, and Regensburg), and they held up to three electoral votes in the Holy Roman ...
