Franz von Bayern
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Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, commonly known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. H
Franz in 2023
Duke Franz, painted by Dieter Stein in 1985
Franz von Bayern in the regalia of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Munich, 2012)
Nymphenburg Palace
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria
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Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria was the son of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria. He was the only child from that marriage who reached adult
Franz von Bayern
…II, via their common ancestor, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt. Franz was born on 14 July 1933 in Munich, as the third child and elder son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, and his first wife, Countess Maria (Marita) Draskovich of Trakostjan, member of the House of Drašković, an old Croatian noble family. As Maria's family…
Albrecht in 1948
Albrecht with his younger half-brother, Prince Heinrich, in 1922.
Coat of arms of the Counts Drashkovich of Trakostjan