The War of the Bavarian Succession was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the B
Friedrich der Grosse und der Feldscher
Max Joseph, prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria
Charles IV Theodore
Archduke Joseph (portrait by Georg Decker)
Maximilian III Joseph
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Maximilian III Joseph, also known by his epithet "the much beloved" was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777. He was the last of the Bavarian branch of the H
War of the Bavarian Succession
…Kartoffelkrieg (Potato War) in Prussia and Saxony; in Habsburg Austria, it was sometimes called the Zwetschgenrummel (Plum Fuss). On 30 December 1777, Maximilian III Joseph, the last of the junior Wittelsbach line, died of smallpox, leaving no children. Charles Theodore, a scion of a senior branch of the House of Wittelsbach…
Portrait of Maximilian III Joseph by Georg Desmarées
Maximilian Joseph as electoral prince.
Maximilian III Joseph, 1761
Conventionsthaler with the portrait of Maximilian III. Joseph