Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828-1875)
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| Prince Adalbert of Bavaria | |
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| Born | July 19, 1828 |
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| Birthplace | Munich, Bavaria |
| Died | September 21, 1875 (aged 47) |
| Place of death | Munich, Bavaria |
| Buried | Michaelskirche, Munich, |
| Consort | Infanta Amalia Felipina del Pilar of Spain |
| Royal House | House of Wittelsbach |
| Father | Ludwig I of Bavaria |
| Mother | Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen |
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (German: Adalbert Wilhelm Georg Ludwig Prinz von Bayern) (born Munich, 19 July 1828; died Nymphenburg Palace, 21 September 1875) was the ninth child and fourth son of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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[edit] Marriage
In Madrid on 25 August 1856 he married Infanta Amalia Felipina del Pilar of Spain (1834-1905), sixth daughter and eleventh child of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain (a younger son of King Charles IV of Spain) and Princess Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies. They had five children :
- Ludwig Ferdinand (1859-1949); married Infanta María de la Paz of Spain
- Alfons (1862-1933); married Princess Louise of Orleans, daughter of Ferdinand Philippe Marie, duc d'Alençon
- Isabella (1863-1924); married Thomas, 2nd Duke of Genoa
- Elvira (1868-1943); married Rudolf von Wrbna-Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg and Freudenthal
- Clara (1874-1941); unmarried
[edit] Death
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria died on September 21, 1875 in Munich and is buried in the Colombarium in the Michaelskirche in Munich, Bavaria.
[edit] Greek succession
It is often suggested that following his older brother Otto's death, Prince Adalbert became the heir presumptive to the throne of Greece. However, the rights to the Greek succession were actually passed onto his other older brother Luitpold, who technically succeeded to the Greek throne in 1867. Due to the renunciation of all the rights to the Greek succession by King Ludwig III, at Luitpold's death the rights to the throne of Greece were inherited by his younger son Prince Leopold. Not withstanding this, following the extinction of Prince Leopold's male-line descendants in 1997, with the death of Prince Eugen of Bavaria (this having been preceded by the extinction of all descendants of Leopold's younger brother, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, in 1916), the succession rights then technically devolved to the heirs of Prince Adalbert.
[edit] References
- Die Wittelsbacher. Geschichte unserer Familie. Prestel Verlag, München, 1979
