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    until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was born into the Ducal royal branch of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach but enjoyed an informal upbringing...
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    The House of Wittelsbach (German: Haus Wittelsbach) is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate...
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    William IV. By birth, she was a Bavarian princess from the House of Wittelsbach; she was related to the ruling houses of Austria and Saxony through the...
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    2011), nicknamed "Empress-mother", was a German princess of the House of Wittelsbach, granddaughter of King Louis III of Bavaria and wife of Prince Pedro...
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    Reine Élisabeth in honor of her visit to Tutankhamun's tomb on 18 February 1923. The association is now called Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth. King...
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    the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach. Elisabeth was born in Munich, Bavaria, as a member of the House of Wittelsbach, reigning family of the Kingdom...
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    German: Elisabeth Charlotte; 27 May 1652 – 8 December 1722), also known as Liselotte von der Pfalz, was a German member of the House of Wittelsbach who married...
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    Marie-Élisabeth. In: Nouvelle Biographie nationale de Belgique, Bd. 2 (1990), S. 267–270. Media related to Category:Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria...
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    and Croatia. Their rule was twice interrupted by the rival House of Wittelsbach. The family takes its name from its ancestral county of Luxembourg which...
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  • The Empress (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Empress Elisabeth of Austria)
    the streaming service. Sixteen-year-old Bavarian Duchess, Elisabeth "Sisi" von Wittelsbach, falls in love with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, the intended...
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    Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    House of Wittelsbach who were Kings of Bavaria, and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music. He is most famous today as the father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria...
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    Éléonor de Bergh had five sons and four daughters: Élisabeth (1635-1680), married Charles III, Duke of Elbeuf, and had issue. Godefroy Maurice, 3rd duc de Bouillon...
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    Otto V, Count of Wittelsbach (c. 1083 – 4 August 1156), also called Otto IV, Count of Scheyern, was the second son of Eckhard I, Count of Scheyern and...
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    Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (Polish: Jadwiga Elżbieta Amalia Sobieska; 18 July 1673 – 10 August 1722) was a Polish princess by marriage to James Louis...
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    Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    temporarily moved from Bavaria to the Austrian Tyrol. His family, the House of Wittelsbach, were opposed to the regime of Nazi Germany and refused to join the Nazi...
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    Duchess Helene in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Wittelsbach sisters.[citation needed] The first child, a daughter, who they named Louisa, was born in 1859, followed by a second daughter, Elisabeth,...
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    Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    1849 – 12 June 1893) was a German prince of the House of Wittelsbach, and a brother of Elisabeth of Bavaria. He married Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and...
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    Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    House of Wittelsbach and a professional oculist. He was the favorite brother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and the father of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians...
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    Duke Pius August in Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line of the House of Wittelsbach. Pius August was a grandfather of Empress Elisabeth of Austria through his son Duke Maximilian...
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    und Arzt, Dr. med. Herzog Carl Theodor in Bayern: Shicksal zwischen Wittelsbach und Habsburg. Graz: Verlag Styria, 1963. Media related to Princess Ludovika...
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    of a fall from a horse. In Leipzig on 19 November 1460 Ernst married Elisabeth of Bavaria. They had seven children: Christina (25 December 1461, Torgau –...
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    Elizabeth of Hungary (German: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, Hungarian: Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, Slovak: Svätá Alžbeta Uhorská; 7 July 1207 – 17 November...
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    Albert von Thurn und Taxis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    hereditary heads of state in Europe. He also descends from the dynasties of Wittelsbach, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Braganza and the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.: 536–540...
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    Archduchess Gisela of Austria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    1872, Emperor Franz Josef wanted the match between his daughter and the Wittelsbach prince, as there were so few Catholic princes available at that time...
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    of King Charles VI from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea...
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    Luitpold Prinz von Bayern (category House of Wittelsbach)
    member and second in line of succession to the headship of the House of Wittelsbach, which reigned as Kings of Bavaria until 1918, and the head of König...
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    Ducs (in French). Perrin. Thomas, Andrew L. (2010). A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550-1650. Brill...
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    Herzog-Max-Palais (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    belonged to the House of Wittelsbach and was built from 1828 to 1830 for Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. In 1937...
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    Louis VI, Elector Palatine (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Heidelberg), was an Elector from the Palatinate-Simmern branch of the house of Wittelsbach. He was the first-born son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine and Marie...
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    Possenhofen Castle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    served as a seat of the Dukes in Bavaria, a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach, until it became derelict after 1920. Duke Luitpold Emanuel sold Possenhofen...
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