Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a junior branch of the royal House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music
Maximilian Joseph, c. 1870
A young Duke Maximilian Joseph. Portrait painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, between 1825 and 1831.
Engagement portrait of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828.
Possenhofen Castle
Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
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Princess Ludovika of Bavaria was the fifth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Queen Caroline. She was the mother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and was born and died in
Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
…Wittelsbach whose members held the titles of Duke and Duchess in Bavaria. On 9 September 1828, at Tegernsee, Maximilian Joseph married his father's cousin, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, the sixth daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. They had ten children. In 1834, he purchased Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg; this was…
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Princess Ludovika with her family in 1890