Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria
Born(1795-07-07)7 July 1795
Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
Died16 August 1875(1875-08-16) (aged 80)
Tegernsee, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Spouse
Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin
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(m. 1823; died 1838)​
Names
German: Karl Theodor Maximilian August
English: Charles Theodore Maximilian Augustus
HouseWittelsbach
FatherMaximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
MotherAugusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt

Prince Karl Theodor Maximilian August of Bavaria (7 July 1795 – 16 August 1875); and grand prior of the order of Malta, was a Bavarian soldier.[1]

Early life

Charles was born in Munich on 7 July 1795. He was the second son of King Maximilian I of Bavaria and his first wife Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.[1]

Career

Charles fought against Napoleon at the Battle of Hanau in 1813, became a general of division, and took part in the Campaign of 1814. His differences with Prince Wrede led to his retirement from 1822 till some time after the latter's death in 1838, when his brother King Ludwig I of Bavaria appointed him field marshal and general inspector of the army. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, he was commander-in-chief of the 7th and 8th corps of the Bavarian Army, being allied with Austria. His troops, some 52,000 men, served in the Main Campaign.[2] Afterwards he retired from public service.[1]

Personal life

He married, morganatically, on 1 October 1823 with Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin (27 July 1796, Neuburg – 22 February 1838, Munich), who was created Baroness von Bayrstorff upon their marriage.[3] She was a daughter of Franz Moritz Petin and Baroness Maria Theodora von Branca. Before her death at Tegernsee in 1838, they were the parents of three daughters:[4]

Prince Karl fell from his horse while riding at Tegernsee in Bavaria on 16 August 1875 and was killed instantly.[6]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of Maximiliane, Baroness von Gumppenberg (1850–1937),[7] who married Count Maximilian von Holnstein, a close friend of King Ludwig II who brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck.[8][9]

Honours

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 309.
  2. ^ Wagner, Arthur Lockwood (1889). The Campaign of Königgrätz: A Study of the Austro-Prussian Conflict in the Light of the American Civil War. Fort Leavenworth. p. 15.
  3. ^ Ehrlich, Anna; Bauer, Christa (28 January 2016). Erzherzogin Sophie: Die starke Frau am Wiener Hof. Franz Josephs Mutter, Sisis Schwiegermutter (in German). Amalthea Signum Verlag. p. 21. ISBN 978-3-903083-10-3. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  4. ^ Minkels, Dorothea (14 January 2020). Briefwechsel des Königspaares Band 3: Friedrich Wilhelm & Elisabeth von Preussen / 1844-1845 Der Industrie- und Kunstförderer & Protektorin sozialer Einrichtungen (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. p. 412. ISBN 978-3-7494-0294-6. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Burke's Peerage. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-85011-029-6. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  6. ^ "DEATH OF PRINCE CHARLES OF BAVARIA". The Daily Telegraph. 17 August 1875. p. 5. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. ^ Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A. (1879). The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Vol. 13. WENTWORTH Press. p. 309. ISBN 9781360210124. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  8. ^ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 793. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Bayerischer Kurier: 1877,9/12". Bayerischer Kurier (in German). Lentner. 1877. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  10. ^ a b Bayern (1819). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1819. Landesamt. pp. 6, 21.
  11. ^ a b "Karl Theodor Maximilian August Kgl. Prinz von Bayern K.H." the Prussian Machine. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  12. ^ Bayern (1824). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1824. Landesamt. p. 27.
  13. ^ Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. p. 94.
  14. ^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1874, pp. 51, 53, 56, retrieved 11 September 2020
  15. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1862), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 32, 43
  16. ^ a b c d e f Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. pp. 108, 110, 123, 130, 136.
  17. ^ Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1843), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 7
  18. ^ Hessen-Darmstadt (1860). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Hessen: für das Jahr ... 1860. Staatsverl. p. 8.
  19. ^ Hof- und Adreß-Handbuch des Fürstenthums Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen: 1844. Beck und Fränkel. 1844. p. 20.
  20. ^ Liste der Ritter des Königlich Preußischen Hohen Ordens vom Schwarzen Adler (1851), "Von Seiner Majestät dem Könige Friedrich Wilhelm III. ernannte Ritter" p. 18
  21. ^ a b Almanach de la cour: pour l'année ... 1817. l'Académie Imp. des Sciences. 1817. pp. 78, 142.
  22. ^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1873. Heinrich. 1873. pp. 3, 33.
  23. ^ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1872, p. 460, retrieved 11 September 2020 – via runeberg.org
  24. ^ Württemberg (1873). Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Württemberg: 1873. p. 32.

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