The Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706 was a revolt against the occupation of the Electorate of Bavaria by the Imperial Army of the Habsburg Monarchy during the War of the Spanish Succession. It lasted fr
The 1705 Slaughter of the Sendling Farmers, detail from the fresco by William Lindenschmit the Elder on the Old Parish Church of St. Margaret.
Max Emanuel, Duke of Bavaria
Bavarian national uprising -Defregger Schmied
Maximilian II Emanuel
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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 Netherlan
Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706
…days. Henric L. Wuermeling speaks of this as "the first revolution of modern history." By the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria had developed a plan for the House of Wittelsbach to supplant the House of Habsburg as Holy Roman Emperor. Allying himself with the French against the…
Max Emanuel as military commander
Max Emanuel by Giuseppe Volpini (1720)
Schleissheim, New Palace.
Family of Maximilian II Emanuel in 1733.