I'm less certain as to how members of deposed German dynasties are allowed to legally style themselves. I'm assuming that that the Bavarian royals could style themselves as Wittelsbachs, in the same way that the Austrian royals can call themselves Habsburgs. Or perhaps they can call themselves "of Bavaria", after all ...
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It is different in the traditional agnatic systems when one arrives at a female with the extinction of all other males. In this case, one can think of a second House of Habsburg, itself a branch of (and later wholly composing) the House of Lorraine. However, this is a genealogical designation... During the time of their monarchy, what you refer to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine or the House of Habsburg always referred to themselves primarily as the House of Austria . They did not refer to themselves as "of Habsburg" and it was only much later that the arms of Habsburg were tierced with those of Austria and Lorraine in their dynastic arms.
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