I ask because of Brigitte Hamann's biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria: the author stated that, as duchess in Bavaria, she was made to sign a renunciation of her rights to the throne of the kingdom -- for reasons that she was engaged to marry an enthroned foreign sovereign.
Of course, it was only her own rights in the Bavarian royal succession that were affected, on the occasion -- not those of her descendants. There have, in fact, been three intermarriages between the descendants of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth of Austria and those of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. The first and third (Archduchess Gisela and Prince Leopold; Archduchess Theresa and Prince Rasso) were dynastic from the beginning, since they were clearly within the Wittelsbach house laws. The second (Countess Auguste von Seefried and Prince Adalbert) was originally morganatic, but eventually de-morganatized: Crown Prince Rupprecht recognized the union as dynastic in 1949.
Anyhow, I was just wondering about past lines of succession to the throne of Bavaria: were at least male descendants in the male line of the junior Wittelsbachs (which eventually became extinct in the 1970's) in it? If so, I would imagine that Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (Sissi's eldest brother) would have followed the "Spanish" Witteslbachs (descendants of King Ludwig I through his youngest son), but skip over to Duke Carl Theodor, because of the former's morganatic marriage.
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