Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
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Maximilian II, also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements.
Max Emanuel as military commander
Max Emanuel by Giuseppe Volpini (1720)
Schleissheim, New Palace.
Family of Maximilian II Emanuel in 1733.
House of Wittelsbach
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The House of Wittelsbach is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria, the Electoral Palatinate, the Electorate of Cologne, Holland, Zeeland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Bohemia, and Greece. Their ancestral lands of Bavaria and the Palatinate were prince-electorates, and the family had three of its members elected emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire. They ruled over the Kingdom of Bavaria which was created in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918.
The Wittelsbach dominions within the Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, The Netherlands and Palatinate) 1373 are shown as Wittelsbach, among the houses of Luxembourg which acquired Brandenburg that year and Habsburg which had acquired Tyrol in 1369
Heidelberg Castle, the seat of the Electors of Palatinate until destroyed by the French in March 1689.
Nymphenburg Palace
The Kingdom of Greece in 1861.