There are still lots of males descending from King Ludwig III. throu8gh his younger son Prince Franz,. His eldest son the late Prince Ludwig (who was amrried to his cousin imringard, daughter of Crown pricne Rupprecht). had a son and three grandsonm. His younger son the late Prince Rasso has three sons, one of those is a Priest but the other two have each three sons.
Yes, I know these facts, but you misunderstood my point: the whole reason why one even has to look at the additional male lines of descent from King Ludwig III is precisely the fact that that of his eldest son is on the verge of extinction. Otherwise, if Duke Franz and Prince Max, between them, had a slew of sons (like the younger sons of Prince Rasso), or if Prince Heinrich had married dynastically and fathered sons, one wouldn't even be looking at that branch of the Bavarian royal family. Rather, the world would have the impression that the House of Wittelsbach was comprised only of the descendants of Crown Prince Rupprecht.
But we know that is not the case: the point is that Prince Franz does not represent the only other surviving male-line descent of the house, to ensure dynastic continuation. Although those of King Ludwig III's younger brothers are extinct, he had an uncle whose male-line descent is still alive. To the best of my knowledge, the descendants of the said uncle (Prince Adalbert, youngest son of King Ludwig I) count as dynastic members of the royal house.
So when it comes to descent from Jan Willem Friso, then, one has to make the qualifier "all the Bavarian royals descended from King Ludwig III", as opposed to just plain "all the Bavarian royals."
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