Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
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Maximilian I Joseph was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1822
Maximilian Joseph
Max I Joseph, Bust by Ernst von Bandel (1826)
Presentation medal of the Bavarian Parliament (Bayerische Ständeversammlung) 1819 to their King Maximilian I Joseph, on the first anniversary of the constitution of 1818, obverse.
Palatine Zweibrücken
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The Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire with full voting rights to the Reichstag. Its capital was Zweibrücken. The reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was also the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720.
Charles XII, King of Sweden (1682-1718). Portrait by Johann Heinrich Wedekind
Zweibrücken Palace
View of Zweibrücken; engraving after a painting by Theodor Verhas
Charles II August (1775-1795)