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	The Wittelsbach Diamond
		The Wittelsbach weighs 35.56 metric carats and measures 24.40 mm in diameter and 8.29 mm in depth.
		In the aftermath of World War I, Bavaria became a republic and the possessions of the former House of Wittelsbach were placed under the control of an equalization fund.
		Accordingly, the State agreed in 1931 that certain Crown Jewels of the House of Wittelsbach should be sold to alleviate the hardship experienced by descendants of the last king.
	famousdiamonds.tripod.com /wittelsbachdiamond.html (1636 words)

	Royal family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the United Kingdom), or a private house law (e.g., Liechtenstein, the former royal houses of Bavaria, Prussia, Hanover, etc.).
		The members of a royal family may or may not have a surname or dynastic name (see Royal House).
		In a constitutional monarchy, when the monarch dies, there is always a very specific order of succession that indicates the exact order of family members in line to the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_family (632 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wittelsbach
		With the extinction of the Bavarian line of the house of Wittelsbach on the death of Elector Maximilian Joseph in 1777, the duchy of Bavaria passed to the elector palatine, Charles Theodore, of the Sulzbach line.
		A member of the house of Wittelsbach, in 1799 he inherited its territories as Maximilian IV Joseph, elector of Bavaria.
		Treasure houses of Germany: the display in Munich of works of art from aristocratic collections has been condemned in the German press as a 'selling exhibition', but it should be considered a wake-up call to the country's cultural guardians, as Philippa Glanville explains.
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		A "dynastic marriage" is one that complies with monarchical house law restrictions, so that the descendants are eligible to inherit the throne and/or other royal privileges.
		Cerdicing Dynasty, or House of Wessex, (829-1016 and 1042-1066)
		House of Habsburg or House of Austria (1516-1700)
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	The Light & the Dark: VADEMECUM - THE NADIR OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
		Lewis IV of the House of Wittelsbach was constantly at loggerheads with the House of Luxemburg.
		The House of Wittelsbach is Bavarian; its origin is the castle of Wittelsbach, sixteen miles to the north-east of Augsburg.
		The Wittelsbachs ruled Bavaria, first as dukes, later as kings, until the last King of Bavaria, Lewis III (1913-1918), was deposed during the German revolution of 1918. There are still descendants of the House of Wittelsbach alive.
	home.wanadoo.nl /piet.fontaine/volumes/nadir.htm (2180 words)

	niederbayen-oben-auf.de - Liberation Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The House of Wittelsbach, which has been so important for Bavaria, was already influential in its early days in Kelheim, at the confluence of the Danube and the Altmühl Rivers.
		This marriage was also how the white-blue diamond pattern of the Counts of Bogen found its way into the Bavarian coat of arms.
		But the House of Wittelsbach would again be of importance for the region around the Danube and Altmühl Rivers.
	www.niederbayern.de /en/niederbayern/1/Culture/Liberation_Hall (199 words)

	Palace Wittelsbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From 1583 until 1761 a member of the bavarian branch of the house ruled as Elector and Archbishop of Cologne.
		Beginning in 1609 and continuing until 1805 the ruling duke of Julich-Berg was a member of the Palatine branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
		Wittelsbach rule in Sweden began in 1654 with the abdication of Queen Kristina and ended in 1720 with the abdication of Queen Eleonora.
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	Wittelsbach information - Search.com
		The Wittelsbach family was the ruling dynasty of the German territories of Bavaria from 1180 to 1918 and of the Rhine Palatinate from 1214 until 1805; in 1815 the latter territory was partly incorporated into Bavaria, which was elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon in 1806.
		The House of Wittelsbach split into these two branches in 1329: Under the Treaty of Pavia, Emperor Louis IV granted the Palatinate to his brother Duke Rudolf's descendants, Rudolf II and Rupert I and Rupert II.
		The Palatinate House of Pfalz-Zweibrücken contributed to the monarchy of Sweden again 1654-1720 under Charles X, Charles XI, Charles XII and Ulrika Eleonora.
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	Who Are The Black Nobility?
		All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice, from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of England, Elizabeth II, descends.
		The Guelphs are so intertwined with the German aristocracy through the House of Hanover that it would take several pages to mention all their connections.
		All (almost) European royal houses originate from the House of Hanover and thus from the House of Guelph — the Black Nobility.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_blacknobil02.htm (737 words)

	CLEVES, DUCHY OF. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1609 the male line became extinct, and a complicated dynastic quarrel for the succession followed.
		Brandenburg acquired (1614) Cleves, Mark, and Ravensberg; the Palatinate-Neuburg line of the Bavarian house of Wittelsbach took Jülich and Berg.
		The succession was not finally settled until 1666, when the Treaty of Cleves confirmed the division.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/cl/Cleves-d.html (143 words)

	Bavarian history
		In the 14th and 15th centuries the House of Wittelsbach was weakened by the partition of its lands through inheritance.
		His uncle, the capable Prince Regent Luitpold (1886 - 1912), and his son, King Ludwig III (1912 - 1918), were the last rulers of the House of Wittelsbach, which had reigned over Bavaria for 738 years.
		Wittelsbach is given the Duchy of Bavaria by Emperor Friedrich.
	www.bayern.de /English/Land_and_People/Bavarian_History/welcome2.html (1899 words)

	HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF WITTELSBACH - ROYAL HOUSE OF BAVARIA AND PRINCELY HOUSE OF LÖWENSTEIN
		Catholic: Once thought to have descended from the family of Lords of Babenberg (modern Bamberg), rulers or MarkGrafs of the Ostmark, the Wittelsbach line was founded by Luitpold (d 5 Jul 907), cousin and General of the Carolingian Emperor Arnulf, m to Kunigunde, dau of Cout Palatine Berthold of Swabia.
		The primogeniture male line of the House of Wittelsbach, this branch descends from the m in 1471 of the Elector Palatine Friedrich I (b 1 Aug 1425; d 12 Dec 1476) to Klara Tott (called Dettin), dau of Erhard Tott, member of the council of the city of Augsburg (see above, under BAVARIA).
		Their son Ludwig (b 29 Sep 1463; d 28 Mar 1524), legitimated by the subsequent marriage of his parents, was invested with the Lordship of Scharffeneck by Elector Philipp, and received the county of Löwenstein (near Heilbronn, Württemberg) 1488 and Lordship of Abstatt 1490; cr Reichsgraf (Count of the Holy Roman Empire) 27 Feb 1494.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/bavarhis.htm (1463 words)

	Ratisbon
		Heinrich IV of Absberg (1465-92), an admirable bishop, took energetic measures against the Hussites and other fanatics, against the superstitions of the people, and the incontinency of the clergy; to the restoration of discipline and order in the monasteries, especially in several convents, he devoted a restless activity.
		With Albert Siegmund (1668-85) began the series of bishops from the house of Wittelsbach, which for nearly a century occupied the episcopal see.
		Albert was simultaneously Bishop of Freising, as was Joseph Klemens (1685-1716), who, as Elector of Cologne (from 1688), espoused the cause of Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession, and was for this reason, like his brother Elector Max Emmanuel, placed under the imperial ban.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/r/ratisbon.html (1874 words)

	The Jacobite Kings and Their Heirs
		The biographies presented here show in some detail how the succession to the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland has passed from the House of Stuart through the Houses of Savoy and Habsburg to the House of Wittelsbach, where it remains to this day.
		Miguel Lockett von Wittelsbach *1953 son of Princess Hilda of Bavaria, aunt of Francis.
		Alexander Lockett von Wittelsbach *1958 son of Princess Hilda of Bavaria, aunt of Francis.
	www.jacobite.ca /kings/index.htm (1683 words)

	History of the Pfalz
		How the ruling system in medieval Germany emerged with its dukes, counts and eccessiastical princes of the Church, is an long, but fascinating chapter, which I must for brevity´s sake leave out here.
		In 1329, in an internal dynastic settlement, the North Mark of Bavaria was detached from the Bavarian Wittelsbachs and given to the branch of the family which also held the Rhenish territories.
		Many of the half-timbered houses that still grace the main street of this quaint village (one built in 1717 by my ancestor) were built in the first half of that century.
	webpages.charter.net /gooup/View/History/History_of_the_Pfalz/history_of_the_pfalz.html (2116 words)

	Prussia 1911
		After the extinction of the Ascanian line in 1320 the Electorate of Brandenburg became a possession of the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach, and in 1373 of the House of Luxemburg.
		At about the same time the ducal House of Pomerania was nearing extinction, so that all at once the state ruled by the Hohenzollerns seemed to approach a great extension of its territories.
		Bismarck nevertheless carried on the war jointly with Austria; among its events were the successful storming of the Düppeler entrenchments on 18 April, and the crossing to the Island of Alsen in the night of 28-29 June, 1864.
	polishpoland.com /prussia_1911.htm (14678 words)

	ZweibruckenHistory
		Zweibrücken was chartered in 1352 and passed (1385) to the Palatinate branch of the Bavarian house of Wittelsbach.
		Empress Elizabeth of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph, and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians, consort of Albert I, issued from a collateral line of the dynasty, and the Wittelsbachs have intermarried for centuries with all the royal families of Europe.
		ZweibrUcken was chartered in 1352 and passed (1385) to the Palatinate branch of the Bavarian house of Wittelsbach.
	www.visiteuropeonline.com /zweibrucken/zweibruckenhistory.htm (1271 words)

	The King of Hearts: Ludwig II of Bavaria
		His father was the 36 year old Catholic Crown Prince of the House of Wittelsbach, who had married the Protestant Princess Marie of Hohenzollern, a niece of King Frederick William III of Prussia.
		The King bought a house for the composer in Munich, and later provided the funds for the building of the Bayreuth Festival theatre, as well as for Wagner’s estate Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth.
		Ludwig was at Neuschwanstein and was advised to escape across the border to Austria.
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	Ludwig III of Bavaria - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When he was eighteen he automatically became a member of the Senate of the Bavarian Legislature as a prince of the royal house.
		In 1866 Bavaria was allied with the Austrian Empire in the Austro-Prussian War.
		As a prince of the royal house he was automatically a member of the Senate of the Bavarian Legislature; there he was a great supporter of the direct right to vote.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Ludwig_III_of_Bavaria (1123 words)

	Munich Info - Theatinerkirche [en]
		Several members of the House of Wittelsbach have been buried in the Fürstengruft (Royal Sepulchre), amongst those the Elector Ferdinand Maria, his wife Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, their son Max Emanuel, elector Karl Theodor, the Emperor Karl VII, King Max I and King Otto of Greece, as well as Prince Regent Luitpold.
		Today the church's southern annex, the former monastery of the Theatines, houses the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture.
		Tip: Access to the Royal Sepulchre of the House of Wittelsbach is via the western lattice gate in the right transept.
	www.munich-info.de /portrait/p_theatinerkirche_en.html (263 words)

	PRINCESS HOUSE
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		The House of Hanover is a younger branch of the, which in turn is a branch of the
		By House Law, the House of Hanover would have acceded to the, but there had been strong Prussian pressure against having George V of Hanover or his son, the Duke of Cumberland, succeed to a member state of the German Empire, at least without strong conditions, including swearing to the German constitution
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	Orders of Chivalry
		Many people through the years have valiantly carried the voice of warning about those who are not what they claim to be.
		It is believed that one of the reasons that people join false orders of chivalry is because there are so many self-styled orders in existence, and because they do not know how to become a member of a true order.
		For the truly worthy, we have taken upon ourselves the project of helping them find out how to become members of those orders which are open to new membership.
	www.nobility-royalty.com /id60.htm (987 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Berg - AOL Research & Learn
		On the extinction (1511) of the Berg-Jülich line, Berg passed to Duke John III of Cleves (see Cleves, duchy of), whose line died out in 1609, setting off a virulent struggle over succession that contributed to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618–48).
		In 1614, Berg was awarded to the Palatinate-Neuburg branch of the Bavarian house of Wittelsbach; the award was confirmed in the Treaty of Cleves (1666).
		Ceded to France in 1806, Berg was raised to a grand duchy by Napoleon I in favor of Joachim Murat.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhenish Palatinate
		The dignity passed to the Duke of Bavaria, Louis of Kelheim of the House of Wittelsbach; Louis's son,
		In this way the Rhenish estates of the Hohenstaufen came to the House of Wittelsbach, in whose hands part of them remain to the present day.
		Otto the Illustrious acquired in addition, one-half of the county of Katzenellenbogen; Louis II the Severe (1253-96) received from the last Hohenstaufen, Conradin, the latter's estates in the Nordgau, in the present Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz, in Bavaria), as pledge.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11415b.htm (2028 words)

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		Another elector was added in 1690, and the whole college was reshuffled in 1803, a mere three years before the dissolution of the Empire.
		After 1438, the Kings remained in the house of Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine, with the brief exception of one Wittelsbach, Charles VII.
		In 1508, and permanently after 1556, the King no longer traveled to Rome for the crowning by the Pope.
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