Maximilien Ier of Bavaria (king)

Maximilien Ier of Bavaria (born the May 27th 1756 with Schwetzingen (close to Mannheim) - died the October 13rd 1825 with Munich).

Resulting from the branch of Double-decker Wittelsbach, Maximilien Ier of Bavaria grows with Strasbourg. He became voter of Bavaria (1799-1806), under the name of Maximilien IV, then king de Bavière (1806-1825). He was also count de Rappolstein (1778-1806), palatine duke of the Double-deckers and Count Palatine of Birkenfeld (1795-1806) and Elector Palatine of the Rhine (1799-1806). He took officially the title of king of Bavaria on January 1st 1806 and reigned until October 13rd, 1825.

Reign

Maximilien Ier of Bavaria succeeded his/her cousin Charles Theodore of Bavaria and became in 1799 voter of Bavaria. It supported politically and militarily Napoleonean France, as of its accession with the capacity (1799), vis-a-vis the European coalition anti-Frenchwoman, and was largely rewarded by important territorial annexations by peace for Lunéville (1801), but for however yielding to the France the Rhenish Palatinat, then was crowned King de Bavière in 1806. But following disastrous the Campagne of Russia and with the French policy more and more répréssionnaire, it lined up finally with dimensions one of the anti-Napoleonean coalition, which enabled him to be seen recognizing the territorial annexations of 1801, its royal title and to find Rhenish Palatinat by the Congrès of Vienna (1815) occurring following the fall of the French Empire. He undertook at the time of his reign of many liberal reforms and granted to his people a Constitution (May 26th 1818) establishing a Constitutional monarchy thus Parlement surface. He signed a Legal settlement with Rome (October 24th 1817).

Private life and Family

Maximilien Ier of Bavaria is the son of Frederic of Two-Bridges-Birkenfeld and Francoise de Soulzbach.

He married in first wedding 1785 Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (dead in 1796), girl of Georges-Guillaume of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Five children come from this first marriage:

Widower with old forty years, Maximilien Ier of Bavaria married in 1797 Caroline de Bade (dead in 1841), girl of Charles Louis de Bade.

From this union were born:

Predecessor : Charles Theodore of Bavaria (Charles II Theodore of Bavaria)

Successor : Louis Ier of Bavaria

Internal bonds

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