Duchy of Bavaria
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The Duchy of Bavaria was a frontier region in the southeastern part of the Merovingian kingdom from the sixth through the eighth century. It was settled by Bavarian tribes and ruled by dukes under Fra
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The Bavarian Square banner in the Wappenbuch des St. Galler Abtes Ulrich Rösch, 15th century
Electorate of Bavaria
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The Electorate of Bavaria was a quasi-independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623 to 1806, when it was succeeded by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Duchy of Bavaria
…Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Frederick passed Bavaria over to the House of Wittelsbach, which held it until 1918. The Bavarian dukes were raised to prince-electors during the Thirty Years' War in 1623, and to kings by Napoleon in 1806. The duchy chaired the bench of the secular princes to the Reichstag of the…
Maximilian II Emanuel
Charles Theodore
Count Montgelas
Gallia Protects Bavaria by Marianne Kürzinger (1805), an allegory of the military alliance between Bavaria and Napoleonic France