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    House of Hanover. When Otto I, Count of Scheyern died in 1072, his third son Otto II, Count of Scheyern acquired Wittelsbach Castle (near Aichach). The...
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    Otto V, Count of Wittelsbach (c. 1083 – 4 August 1156), also called Otto IV, Count of Scheyern, was the second son of Eckhard I, Count of Scheyern and...
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  • the House of Wittelsbach whose relation with the House can be properly verified. Most historians believe Otto was a younger son of Heinrich I, Count of Pegnitz...
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    circumstances, and Prince Otto succeeded him as King of Bavaria on 13 June 1886 in accordance with the Wittelsbach succession law. Since Otto was unable to lead...
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    Otto IV (1175 – 19 May 1218) was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1209 until his death in 1218. Otto spent most of his early life in England and France. He...
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    Otto (Greek: Όθων, romanized: Óthon; German: Otto Friedrich Ludwig von Wittelsbach; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was King of Greece from the establishment...
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    The Wittelsbach-class battleships were a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early...
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  • cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. The son of Otto IV, Count of Wittelsbach, and brother of Otto I of Bavaria, he studied in Salzburg and Paris. At...
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  • 1184. Richardis was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria. Otto I of Guelders joined his Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on the Third Crusade...
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    Maximilian I (17 April 1573 – 27 September 1651), occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597...
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  • Bavaria since 1120 (d. 22 Aug 1123) (V of Wittelsbach, IV of Scheyern) Eckhard II of Scheyern (d. c. 1135) (de) Murray 1997, p. 94. Jeffery 2018, p. ii...
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    SMS Wittelsbach was the lead ship of the Wittelsbach class of pre-dreadnought battleships, built for the Imperial German Navy. She was the first capital...
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    Graeco-Roman sculptures. All living legitimate agnatic members of the House of Wittelsbach descend from him. Born in the Zweibrücker Hof in Straßburg as Ludwig...
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    1252 – c. 1312), married Margrave Otto V of Brandenburg-Salzwedel Poppo (c. 1254 – 1291), married Sophie of Wittelsbach (c. 1264 – 1282), daughter of Elizabeth...
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    Maximilian I Joseph) from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach. Maximilian...
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    Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, (German: Ottheinrich; 10 April 1502, Amberg – 12 February 1559, Heidelberg) a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count...
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    Franz von Bayern (category House of Wittelsbach)
    known by the courtesy title Duke of Bavaria, is the head of the House of Wittelsbach, the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His great-grandfather...
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    Heilika of Lengenfeld (category House of Wittelsbach)
    Frederick I of Swabia and his wife, Agnes of Germany. As such, she was a granddaughter of Emperor Henry IV. She married Count Otto IV of Wittelsbach (d. 1156)...
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    and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, fell out. The emperor consequently dispossessed the duke and gave his territory to Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria...
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    Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    temporarily moved from Bavaria to the Austrian Tyrol. His family, the House of Wittelsbach, were opposed to the regime of Nazi Germany and refused to join the Nazi...
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    Count Palatine Otto I of Bavaria, who later became the first Wittelsbach Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon. Richardis married Otto I of Guelders...
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    there. Louis and Agnes had the following children: Agnes, married Otto I of Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria Arnold, died young Gerard, Count of Loon Hugo,...
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  • Bavaria (herself daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria). Otto is first mentioned in a charter from 1247. Otto succeeded his father before 1251...
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    On 4 July 2011, Otto von Habsburg, also known as Otto of Austria, former head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden...
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  • sons of Conrad I of Dachau [de], a member of the House of Wittelsbach. His younger brother was Arnold III of Dachau. Their father Conrad I of Dachau was...
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    Ludwig III of Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    with the other monarchies of the German states, ending the House of Wittelsbach's 738-year reign over Bavaria. Fearing that he might be a victim of an...
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    Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach. Elisabeth was born in Munich, Bavaria, as a member of the House of Wittelsbach, reigning family of the Kingdom...
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    Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria (category House of Wittelsbach)
    by the Wittelsbach dynasty since Louis then made Charles IV his contracted heir. However, Stephen accepted his brother Otto, the last Wittelsbach regent...
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    Habsburg-Lorraine, with the brief exception of Charles VII, who was a Wittelsbach. Maximilian I (emperor 1508–1519) and his successors no longer traveled to Rome...
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    equestrian statue of Duke Otto I. The bridge was initially built as a wooden bridge in 1874 and named after the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty. In 1904, the...
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