Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria

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Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand in 1906
Born(1859-10-22)22 October 1859
Madrid, Spain
Died23 November 1949(1949-11-23) (aged 90)
Munich,
West Germany
Burial
Michaelskirche, Munich
Spouse
​
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(m. 1883)​
Issue
Names
German: Ludwig Ferdinand Maria Karl Heinrich Adalbert Franz Philipp Andreas Konstantin
Spanish: Luis Fernando María Carlos Enrique Adalberto Francisco Felipe Andrés Constantín
HouseWittelsbach
FatherPrince Adalbert of Bavaria
MotherInfanta Amalia of Spain

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand Maria Karl Heinrich Adalbert Franz Philipp Andreas Konstantin of Bavaria

General of Cavalry. Following his marriage to Infanta María de la Paz of Spain, he was also created an Infante
of Spain.

General information

He was the eldest son of

Princess Luisa Carlotta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
.

Ludwig Ferdinand's paternal uncles were King

Alfonso XII of Spain
(1857–85), two years his senior. Ludwig Ferdinand was born in Madrid, but his younger siblings in Bavaria, where they had returned.

Alfonso XIII
(reigned 1885–1931) was a first cousin's son.

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand was the only member of the Bavarian Royal Family who always remained on friendly terms with his cousin, King Ludwig II (with the exception of

Munich Residence. When Ludwig II was arrested at Neuschwanstein Castle in 1886, he called Ludwig Ferdinand for help; the latter immediately intended to follow this call, but was prevented from leaving Nymphenburg Palace by his uncle Luitpold
who was about to take over government as the ruling Prince Regent.

Landau in der Pfalz
.

Ludwig Ferdinand was one of only a few European princes doing an ordinary job outside government or military, by working as a surgeon and

gynaecologist. During World War I however he worked as head of the surgery department of the Munich military hospital, in spite of being nominal Royal colonel of the 18th Bavarian Infantry-Regiment as well as of a Prussian Dragoons regiment
.

Marriage

Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria was married in 1883 to his maternal first cousin,

Dame
of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa. The wedding took place in Madrid, during her brother Alfonso XII's reign.

Palais Ludwig Ferdinand, seen from Wittelsbacherplatz

In 1885 the young couple returned to Bavaria and resided chiefly in a side wing of the royal Nymphenburg Palace, left to them by Ludwig II. Later, they occupied an acquired palace in the inner city of Munich, the Palais Ludwig Ferdinand at Wittelsbacherplatz, together with Ludwig Ferdinand's brother Alfons and his family.

Ludwig Ferdinand and María de la Paz established the so-called Spanish branch of the Bavarian royal family, started with Ludwig Ferdinand's parents' marriage but strengthened by successive Spanish marriages in altogether three generations.

Children

They had the following children:

Ferdinand died in Francoist Spain, in Madrid.

Ludwig Ferdinand's sisters were

Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon and Duchess Sophie in Bavaria. Alphonse's son Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria lived 1902–90 and died childless and unmarried. A daughter, Elisabeth, became Countess von Kageneck
.

Honours and awards

He received the following orders and decorations:[2]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Spanish: Luis Fernando María Carlos Enrique Adalberto Francisco Felipe Andrés Constantín
  2. ^ "Landtag des Königreiches: Mitglieder der Kammer der Reichsräte", Hof- und - Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern, Munich: Landesamt, 1914, p. 146
  3. ^ "Caballeros de la Insignie Orden del Toison de Oro", Guóa Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1929, p. 216, retrieved 3 April 2021
  4. ^ "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III", Guóa Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1929, pp. 219, 223, retrieved 3 April 2021
  5. ^ "Orden Civil de Alfonso XII", Guóa Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1929, p. 861, retrieved 3 April 2021
  6. ^ "Orden Militar de Santiago", Guóa Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1929, p. 588, retrieved 3 April 2021
  7. ^ "Real Cuerpo Colegiado de Caballeros Hijosdalgo de la Nobleza, de Madrid", Guóa Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1915, p. 127, retrieved 3 April 2021
  8. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Bayern (1908), "Königliche Orden" p. 11
  9. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1910), "Großherzogliche Orden", p. 41
  10. ^ "Ludewigs-orden", Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1898, p. 9 – via hathitrust.org
  11. ^ "Schwarzer Adler-orden", Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (supp.) (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1886, p. 5 – via hathitrust.org{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1900), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 17
  13. ^ Sachsen (1901). "Königlich Orden". Staatshandbuch für den Königreich Sachsen: 1901. Dresden: Heinrich. p. 5 – via hathitrust.org.
  14. ^ Italy. Ministero dell'interno (1920). Calendario generale del regno d'Italia. p. 56.
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