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The King of Bavaria was a title held by the hereditary Wittelsbach rulers of Bavaria in the state known as the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1805 until 1918, when the kingdom was abolished. It was the secon
Last to reign: Ludwig III 1913 – 1918
The Crown of Bavaria.
Portrait of Ludwig I of Bavaria by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1826. Ludwig reigned from 1825 until he was overthrown in the Revolution of 1848
King Max I Joseph in Coronation Robe
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-Birkenfel
King of Bavaria
…One of the staunchest of these had been the prince-elector of Bavaria, Maximilian IV Joseph, and on 1 January 1806, he assumed formally the title King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. He was a member of the Wittelsbach branch Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken. Maximilian's successors resisted German nationalism, and Bavaria became…
Maximilian Joseph
Monument to Max I Joseph, outside of the National Theatre, Munich (1835)
The king's youngest daughters (Marie Anne, Sophie and Ludovika) by Stieler