Was the marriage in 1856 of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (youngest son of King Ludwig I) and Infanta Amelia Felipina of Spain (granddaughter of King Carlos IV) the first union between a Wittelsbach and a Bourbon? Also, what was the precise relationship between the two? They don't appear to have been very closely connected genealogically.
No, Elisabeth-Charlotte "Liselotte" of the Palatinate married Philippe duke of Orléans, 2nd son of Louis XIII of Bourbon.
Adalbert and Amalia were 5th cousins, descending from Philipp-Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;spouse=on;m=RL;i=335912;l1=6;i1=7587840;l2=6;i2=711706;dag=on
The reason for my asking is that the Bavarian prince was descended from two straight generations of intermarriages of Catholics kings and Protestant princesses. So if anything, he would have had closer genealogical ties to Protestant royalty, than to Catholic (notwithstanding the fact that Maximilian I Joseph, the first king of Bavaria, was a direct descendant of Juana la Loca).
In the next generation, one has that the infamous "Mad" Ludwig II of Bavaria (arguably the kookiest king of all time) was descended from THREE straight generations of intermarriages between Catholics kings and Protestant princesses. So I would imagine that he was and is directly related to all the Protestant dynasties of Europe, and indirectly to the Orthodox dynasties (it is a well-known fact that the Romanovs of Russia frequently intermarried with German Protestant royals).
True.
Ludwig II and Tsar Alexander II were 2nd cousins
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;spouse=on;m=RL;i=3090899;l1=5;i1=6477650;l2=3;i2=7587707
Even when it comes to Catholic royalty, it seems that Ludwig is only indirectly related to them through the Protestant connection (consider the ancestry of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia). As for the Benelux countries: yes, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians was born a duchess in Bavaria. Interestingly enough, however, her Protestant-born daughter-in-law Queen Astrid (by birth a princess of Sweden and Norway) was also a direct descendant of King Maximilian I, through his Catholic daughter (Princess Augusta) who married a Protestant crown prince (the future King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway).
Augusta married Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson.
It was their elder daughter Joséphine who married the future king Oscar I of Sweden
Since Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein is also a direct descendant of King Maximilian I, the connection is clear. What, however, of Prince Albert II of Monaco? Is he related to Ludwig?
Yes, through Ludwig IX of Hesse-Darmstadt and his wife Caroline v.Wittelsbach.
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;m=RL;i=1013908;l1=4;i1=7587707;l2=8;i2=4503929;dag=on
Well, Prince Adalbert established the so-called "Spanish branch" of the Bavarian royal family, and his younger son (Prince Alfons) married a French princess (Louise d'Orléans), a great-granddaughter of King Louis-Philippe. Had there been other intermarriages between the Wittelsbachs and the Orléans?
It seems that until the 19th century, the only Catholic royals the Wittelsbachs married were the Habsburgs. Indeed, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and his two eldest sons all married archduchesses of Austria, albeit belonging to different branches of the imperial dynasty.
WAS King Ludwig II related to the Bourbons, in particular, the Orléans (an offshoot of this French royal house)? How about the Savoys or the Braganzas?
Ferdinandn Albrecht v.Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel was the common ancestor to the Braganças via the Saxe-Coburgs.
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;spouse=on;m=RL;i=7582731;l1=5;i1=7587707;l2=6;i2=6645320
The line to D.Miguel I goes back to Philipp-Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg
http://roglo.eu/roglo?lang=pt;spouse=on;m=RL;i=7582731;l1=5;i1=7587707;l2=6;i2=6645320
Stefan1
Message Thread
« Back to index