Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria
| Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria | |||||
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| Born | 7 July 1795 Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire | ||||
| Died | 16 August 1875 (aged 80) Tegernsee, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire | ||||
| Spouse | Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin (m. 1823; died 1838) | ||||
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| House | Wittelsbach | ||||
| Father | Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria | ||||
| Mother | Augusta 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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, Captain in the Bavarian Army, and Baroness Maria Theodora von Branca. Before her death at Tegernsee in 1838, they were the parents of three daughters:[4]
- Caroline Sophie von Bayrstorff (17 October 1816 – 25 May 1889), who married Adolf, Baron von Gumppenberg (1804–1877) in 1834.[5]
- Maximiliane Theodore von Bayrstorff (30 September 1823 – 19 March 1885), who married August, Count von Drechsel zu Deufstetten (1810–1880), in 1841.[5]
- Franziska Sophie von Bayrstorff (10 October 1827 – 2 March 1912), who married Portuguese-Brazilian nobleman Paulo Martins, Viscount d'Almeida (1807–1874) in 1845.[5]
Prince Karl fell from his horse while riding at Tegernsee in Bavaria on 16 August 1875 and was killed instantly.[6]
Descendants
[edit]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
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Bavaria:- Knight of St. Hubert, 1810[10]
- Grand Prior of the Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of St. George, 1813[10]
- Knight of the Military Order of Max Joseph, 18 February 1814[11]
- Grand Cross of Merit of the Bavarian Crown[12]
- Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order[13]
- Army Memorial Cross (1866)[11]
Austria:[14]- Knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, 1814
- Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1843
- Knight of the Golden Fleece, 1859
Baden:[15]- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1840
- Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1840
Brazil: Grand Cross of the Order of Pedro I[16]
Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, June 1842[17]
Tuscan Grand Ducal Family: Grand Cross of St. Joseph[16]
Hesse-Darmstadt: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 21 September 1842[18]
Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class[19]
Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer[16]
Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion[16]
Prussia:- Knight of the Black Eagle, 10 November 1823[20]
- Knight of the Red Eagle, 1st Class[16]
Russia:[16]- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 16 September 1813[21]
- Knight of St. George, 4th Class, 29 January 1814[21]
- Knight of St. Andrew, 7 August 1838
- Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
- Knight of the White Eagle
Saxony:[22]- Knight of the Rue Crown, 1822
- Knight of the Military Order of St. Henry, 1870
Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 16 July 1852[23]
Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1865[24]
Ancestry
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Notes
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 309.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ "DEATH OF PRINCE CHARLES OF BAVARIA". The Daily Telegraph. 17 August 1875. p. 5. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Bayerischer Kurier: 1877,9/12". Bayerischer Kurier (in German). Lentner. 1877. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bayern (1819). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1819. Landesamt. pp. 6, 21.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Karl Theodor Maximilian August Kgl. Prinz von Bayern K.H." the Prussian Machine. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ Bayern (1824). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1824. Landesamt. p. 27.
- ^ Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. p. 94.
- ^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1874, pp. 51, 53, 56, retrieved 11 September 2020
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1862), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 32, 43
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. pp. 108, 110, 123, 130, 136.
- ^ Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1843), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 7
- ^ Hessen-Darmstadt (1860). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Hessen: für das Jahr ... 1860. Staatsverl. p. 8.
- ^ Hof- und Adreß-Handbuch des Fürstenthums Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen: 1844. Beck und Fränkel. 1844. p. 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
- ^ Jump up to: a b Almanach de la cour: pour l'année ... 1817. l'Académie Imp. des Sciences. 1817. pp. 78, 142.
- ^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1873. Heinrich. 1873. pp. 3, 33.
- ^ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1872, p. 460, retrieved 11 September 2020 – via runeberg.org
- ^ Württemberg (1873). Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Württemberg: 1873. p. 32.
References
[edit]- Lundy, Darryl (20 January 2009). "Karl Prinz von Bayern". p. 10179 §101784.
- Louda, Jirí; MacLagan, Michael (1999). Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe (2nd ed.). London: Little, Brown and Company. table 97.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). . The American Cyclopædia. p. 309.
Further reading
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- King, Greg (1997). The Mad King – A Biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria by Greg King. Aurum. ISBN 1-85410-464-0.
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