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Maximilian, Duke in Bavaria

Maximilian Joseph
Duke in Bavaria
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Born (1808-12-04)4 December 1808
Died 15 November 1888(1888-11-15) (aged 79)
Spouse Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
Issue Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria
Wilhelm Karl
Helene, Hereditary Princess of Thurn of Taxis
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria
Karl-Theodor
Maria Sophie, Queen of the Two Sicilies
Mathilde Ludovika, Countess of Trani
Maximilian
Sophie Charlotte, Duchess of Alençon
Maximilian Emanuel
House Wittelsbach
Father Duke Pius August in Bavaria
Mother Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg

Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (4 December 1808 – 15 November 1888), known informally as Max in Bayern, was a member of a junior branch of the House of Wittelsbach and a promoter of Bavarian folk-music. He is most famous today as the father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") and greatgrand father of King Leopold III of Belgium.

Maximilian Joseph was born at Bamberg, the only son of Duke Pius August in Bavaria (1786–1837) and of his wife, Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg. On September 9, 1828, at Tegernsee, Maximilian Joseph married Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. They had ten children.

In 1834 he purchased Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg; this was his major residence for the rest of his life. In 1838 he acquired Unterwittelsbach Castle (today housing a "Sisi" museum) near the site of Burg Wittelsbach, the ancestral seat of the House of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph died in Munich. He and his wife are buried in the family crypt in Tegernsee Abbey, a former monastery which Ludovika's father, King Maximilian I Joseph, had acquired in 1817. At the same time of the secularisation, Duke Maximilian Joseph's grandfather Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria had also purchased a former monastery, Banz Abbey. Both properties, Tegernsee and Banz, are still today owned by Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria.


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