Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (1913–2008)

Prince Ludwig
Born	(1913-06-22)22 June 1913 Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	17 October 2008(2008-10-17) (aged 95) Schloss Leutstetten, Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Burial	Andechs Abbey cemetery, Bavaria
Spouse	Princess Irmingard of Bavaria ​ ​ (m. 1950)​
Princess Isabella Antonie of Croÿ

Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (22 June 1913 – 17 October 2008) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach.

Early life

Prince Ludwig was born at

On 19 July 1950, Ludwig married his first cousin Princess Irmingard of Bavaria (29 May 1923 in Berchtesgaden – 23 October 2010 in Leutstetten), daughter of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and Princess Antonia of Luxembourg. The civil wedding took place at Leutstetten, and the religious ceremony followed a day later at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich. The couple had three children:^{[citation needed]}

• Prince Luitpold of Bavaria (born 14 April 1951 in Leutstetten), married to Katrin Beatrix Wiegand from 1979 to 1999^{[citation needed]}. They had 5 children.^{[citation needed]}
• Princess Maria of Bavaria (born and died 3 January 1953)^{[citation needed]}
• Princess Philippa of Bavaria (born and died 26 June 1954)^{[citation needed]}

Later life

After the death of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria in 1955, Ludwig and Irmingard moved into Schloss Leutstetten, where Irmingard continued to live. Ludwig was a Grand Prior of the Bavarian Order of Saint George, a Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert, and from 1960 a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Ludwig died of pneumonia at Schloss Leutstetten, 17 October 2008, at the age of 95.^[1] On Wednesday, 22 October at 10:00 a.m., a Funeral Liturgy was held in the abbey church at Andechs. After the Mass, his body was buried in the Wittelsbach cemetery on the abbey grounds.

Ancestry

References

• Adalbert Prinz von Bayern. Die Wittelsbacher: Geschichte unserer Familie. München: Prestel Verlag, 1979.

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