Louis III of Bavaria

Louis III of Bavaria (or Louis III of Wittelsbach, HM Ludwig III Leopold Joseph Maria Aloys Alfred King de Bavière), (January 7th 1845 - October 18th 1921, Sarvar) was for one short duration the Prince regent of Bavaria and was last King de Bavière of 1913 to 1918.

Youth

It was born with Munich in 1845. He was the son of Prince Léopold de Wittelsbach (1821-1912) and of his wife, Augusta of Habsbourg-Tuscany (1825-1864).

Ludwig spent its first years in the electoral apartments of the Residence of Munich and in the Palate of Wittelsbach. When it was ten years old, the family settled with the Leuchtenberg Palate.

In 1861, at the sixteen years age, it began a military career and his/her uncle, the king Maximilien II of Bavaria, appointed it second lieutenant with the 6th battalion of hunters. One year later it entered to the University Louis Maximilien of Munich where it studied the right and the economy. When it was eighteen years old he became automatically member of the Bavarian Senate in the capacity as prince of the royal house.

In 1866 Bavaria was allied Austrian Empire at the time of the war austro-Prussian. Louis accepted the rank of lieutenant and was wounded with the battle of Helmstedt, where it was reached of a ball in the thigh. He was decorated with the cross of Knight of 1st Class in the Bavarian Military Order of the Merit.

Marriage and children

In June 1867, Louis went Vienna to attend the burial of his cousin, the Mathilde archduchess of Austria (girl of the sister of its father, the Hildegarde princess of Bavaria). During its stay Ludwig met the cousin by alliance of Mathilde, Marie Therese of Modena (1849-1919), eighteen years old

He married it the February 20th 1868, with the church Saint-Augustin of Vienna. It was the only daughter of the late Ferdinand archduke of Austria-Este (1821-1849) and his wife the archduchess Elisabeth Francoise of Austria (1831-1903).

Ten children come from this union:

  1. Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869 - 1955) Crown prince to Bavaria

  2. Aldegonde of Bavaria (1870 - 1958), in 1915 it married Guillaume of Prussia
  3. Marie of Bavaria (1872 - 1954), in 1897 it married Ferdinand of Bourbon-Siciles
  4. Charles (1874 - 1927)
  5. François (1875-1957), in 1912 he married Isabelle de Croy
  6. Mathilde (1877 - 1906), in 1900 she married Louis of Saxony-Cobourg and Gotha
  7. Wolfgang of Bavaria (1879 - 1895)
  8. Hildegarde of Bavaria (1881 - 1948)
  9. Wiltrude (1884 - 1975), in 1924 it married Guillaume d' Urach, former king Mindaugas II of Lithuania
  10. Gondelinde of Bavaria (1891 - 1983), in 1919 it married Jean-Georges de Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos.

Until 1862 the uncle of Louis had reigned on Greece with the name of Othon Ier. Although it had been deposited, Louis always remained in the line of succession for the throne but, so that it was accepted, it would have been necessary that it renonçât with his catholic faith to become orthodoxe. The uncle of Marie Therese, the duke François V of Modena, was a dedicated catholic and it required, before giving its agreement to the marriage, that Louis renonçât with his rights to the throne of Greece, which guaranteed that his/her children would be high in Catholicism.

His/her father Léopold de Wittelsbach had become regent of the kingdom of Bavaria following the death of his cousin Louis II of Bavaria. The death of his father, in 1912, Louis III always succeeds to him as regent.

He will become king de Bavière in 1913 after the deposition of the brother of Louis II Othon Ier.

Following the proclamation of the Republic of the councils of Bavaria after a mass demonstration organized by the independent social democrat party, Louis III of Bavaria, seeing itself released by the army which refuses to draw on the " rebelles" , on November 7th, 1918 abdicates.

Louis III of Bavaria was buried with the Frauenkirche with Munich.

Internal bonds

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