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  Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis IV of Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach (born 1282) was duke of Bavaria from 1294, duke of the Palatinate from 1329 and, after 1314, Holy Roman Emperor.
Louis VI the Roman (1330–1365), duke of Upper Bavaria
Louis IV was a protector of the Teutonic knights.
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 LOUIS II. OF BAVARIA - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS II. OF BAVARIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bavaria's power of self-defence especially was weakened by his economies and by his lack of interest in the military aspect of things.
For this unfortunate issue Louis was not without blame; for from the very first, owing to an exaggerated idealism and love of antiquity, he had totally misunderstood the national character of the Greeks and the problems involved in the attempts to govern them by bureaucratic methods.
Louis succeeded to the throne on the roth of March 1864 at the age of eighteen.
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 Louis the German   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louis the German (also known as Louis II) (804 - September 28, 876), the third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Irmengarde, was ruler of Eastern Francia from 817 until his death.
The later years of Louis the German were troubled by risings on the part of his sons, the eldest of whom, Carloman, revolted in 861 and again two years later; an example that was followed by the second son Louis, who in a further rising was joined by his brother Charles.
A report that the emperor Louis II was dead led to peace between father and sons and attempts by Louis the German to gain the imperial crown for Carloman.
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 LOUIS I. OF BAVARIA - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS I. OF BAVARIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 827 he married Emma, daughter of Welf I., count of Bavaria, and sister of his stepmother Judith; and he soon began to interfere in the quarrels arising from Judith's efforts to secure a kingdom for her own son Charles, and the consequent struggles of Louis and his brothers with the emperor Louis I. (q.v.).
The later years of Louis were troubled by risings on the part of his sons, the eldest of whom, Carloman, revolted in 861 and again two years later; an example that was followed by the second son Louis, who in a further rising was joined by his brother Charles.
Louis was preparing for war when he died on the 28th of September 876 at Frankfort, and was buried at Lorsch, leaving three sons and three daughters.
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 Bavaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bavaria is bounded on the west by the Länder of Baden-Württemberg and Hessen, on the north by the Länder of Thuringia and Saxony, on the east by the Czech Republic, and on the south and southeast by Austria.
In 1850 Louis' son and successor, Maximilian II (reigned 1848–64), brought Bavaria into an alliance with Saxony, Hanover, and Wurttemberg in accordance with the aim of establishing the medium-sized states in Germany—of which Bavaria was the largest—as a third force to counter the preponderance of Austria and Prussia.
On the eastern edge of Bavaria, adjoining the Czech Republic, is the Bohemian Forest and in the north the Franconian Forest.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Kingdom of Bavaria
Its tributaries in Bavaria from the south are the Iller, a stream rich in fish, the Lech, the Isar, and the Inn; from the north its tributaries are the Wörnitz, the Altmühl, the Regen, and the Vils.
Farming in lower Bavaria and cattle-breeding in Swabia, Upper Bavaria, and Middle Franconia are the chief occupations, while the wines of Franconia and the Palatinate and the fruit and vegetables of Bamberg have a high reputation.
Louis II (1253-94) was succeeded by his son Louis III (known as Emperor Louis IV of the Holy Roman Empire) who, by an agreement in 1329 at Pavia, took Bavaria proper, leaving to Rudolph, his brother, the Rhine Palatinate.
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 Timeline - Up to 1330
Louis of Bavaria declares that he does not recognize either the pope's actions, or his claim to examine the election of a German, accuses him of countenancing heretics, and proposed calling a council to judge him.
Louis of Baviara publishes an appeal against the judgment of the pope, in which he accuses John XXII of heresy, protecting heretics, and an enmity to the empire and appeals the decision to a general council.
Louis of Bavaria holds a congress at Trent with the principal adversaries of the pope.
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 Ludwig III of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludwig III, HM Ludwig III Leopold Joseph Maria Aloys Alfred King of Bavaria, (7 January 1845 - 18 October 1921) was briefly Prince Regent of Bavaria and was the last King of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918.
He was born in Munich, the son of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912) and his wife, Augusta of Tuscany (1825-1864).
Ludwig, on the death of his father, became regent for his insane cousin Otto of Bavaria in 1912, and deposed him by constitutional amendment and proclamation, with the subsequent assent of parliament, on 5 November 1913.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Bavaria
Bavaria (German, Bayern), state in south-east Germany, bounded on the north by the states of Thuringia and Saxony, on the north-east by the...
Augsburg, city in Bavaria, central southern Germany, at the confluence of the Lech and Wertach rivers.
Louis I (of Bavaria), in German, Ludwig I (1786-1868), King of Bavaria (1825-1848), son and successor of Maximilian I, born in Strasbourg.
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 Bavaria
Louis II (of Bavaria), in German, Ludwig II (1845-86), king of Bavaria (1864-86), son and successor of king Maximilian II, born in Nymphenburg.
Son of Louis I and uncle of Louis II and Otto; officer in Bavarian army (1866-86); chosen (1886) regent of Bavaria for Otto during his entire reign because of Otto' s insanity; introduced liberal reforms; patron of the arts, made Munich a center of culture; succeeded by his son Louis III.
Son of King Louis I of Bavaria; unsuccessfully attempted alliance of small German states as counterweight to Austria and Prussia (1848-49); introduced some liberal reforms; patronized scholars, esp. Leopold von Ranke, and made Munich a center of culture; aggressively supported claim of Frederick of Augustenburg to duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
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 Bavaria --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Bavaria is bounded on the west by the Länder of Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, on the north by the Länder of Thuringia and Saxony, on the east by the Czech Republic, and on the south and southeast by Austria.
Niederbayern is bordered by the Czech Republic to the northeast, Austria to the southeast, and the Regierungsbezirke of Oberbayern (Upper Bavaria) to the southwest and west and Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate) to the north.
Oberbayern is bordered by Austria to the east and south and the Regierungsbezirke of Schwaben (Swabia) to the west, Mittelfranken (Middle Franconia) and Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate) to the north, and Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) to the northeast.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg657 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When the king of France, Louis X died in 1316, Eudes, Duke of Burgundy, was one of the parti e s to the regency of Eudes' niece, Jane, Louis' only surviving child, to the throne of Franc e.
Louis IV Of Bavaria Wittlesbach Kaiser Of Germany [Parents] was born in 1287 in Bavaria Son Of Louis II Of Wittlesbach,,.
Louis II Of Wittlesbach Duke was born in 1228 in Upper Bavaria Aka Louis The Strict,,.
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 Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louis was crowned king of Aquitaine (subkingdom to Franks) in 781 to slow rebellion after Charlemagne's defeat in Spain by the Saracen Moslems.
Louis the Pious first reformed the court in a "moral purge," sending all of the unmarried princessess to nunneries and sending Charlemagne's three illegitimate sons to monasteries.
Lothar made a settlement: Louis and Charles were imprisoned, Judith sent in exile to Italy under eye of Lothar, and Louis of Bavaria and Pepin were to gain territory (formerly under imperial authority).
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 AllRefer.com - Louis II, king of Bavaria (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louis II 1845–86, king of Bavaria (1864–86), son and successor of King Maximilian II.
Louis was the patron and friend of Richard Wagner, who for many years exerted a strong influence over him.
Louis aided Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) but sided with Prussia against France in 1870, and in 1871 reluctantly joined the newly created German Empire.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope John XXII
When Louis of Bavaria saw his power firmly established in Germany, he set out early in 1327 for Italy, where in February, with the chiefs of the Italian Ghibellines, he held a congress at Trent.
But Louis had made himself so universally obnoxious in Italy, on account of his tax levies, that the position of the antipope was untenable.
Louis on that occasion refused to entertain the idea, but was later (1333) willing to discuss the project of his abdication.
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 Louis the German. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 858–59 Louis turned on Charles and unsuccessfully invaded the West Frankish kingdom (France), but both brothers soon directed their attention to the lands of Lothair’s heirs, Emperor of the West Louis II and King Lothair of Lotharingia.
The death (875) of Louis II renewed the war between Louis the German and Charles; Charles quickly conquered Italy and was crowned emperor of the West.
Louis the German, in the course of his reign, defended his frontiers against the Slavs and the Danes and suppressed several revolts of his sons, Carloman of Bavaria, Louis the Younger, and Charles the Fat (later Emperor of the West Charles III).
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 Vlar's Timeline of the World (Page 9)
Louis IV of Bavaria crowned Emperor in Rome.
1342 - Louis of Bavaria marries Margaret of Tirol (the "Ugly Duchess") and acquires Tirol and Carinthia.
Louis IV dead, succeeded by Charles IV of Luxembourg.
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 Bavaria
The largest state of Germany, Bavaria is bordered by the Czech Republic on the east, by Austria on the southeast and south, by Baden-Württemberg on the west, by Hesse on the northwest, and by Thuringia and Saxony on the north.
Isabel of Bavaria - Isabel of Bavaria, 1371–1435, French queen, consort of Charles VI, daughter of the duke of...
Louis I, king of Bavaria - Louis I, 1786–1868, king of Bavaria (1825–48), son and successor of King Maximilian I. Otto I, king of Bavaria - Otto I, 1848–1916, king of Bavaria (1886–1913).
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 Lothair I (795-855)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The eldest son of the emperor Louis I. the Pious and a grandson of Charlemagne (742-814), Lothair was made king in Bavaria after Louis succeeded Charlemagne in 814, and in 817 he was made joint emperor.
When in 829 Louis I., under the influence of his second wife, Judith, revised the Ordinatio imperii to grant part of the empire previously granted to Lothair to his son by Judith, Charles (later called the Bald), Lothair broke with the imperial government.
In 833 discontent with the rule of Louis I. the Pious ended in a revolt of the three elder sons, led by Lothair, and Lothair replaced the deposed Louis.
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 The Titles of the European Rulers
Bavaria was finally re-united by Duke Albert IV (+1508) from the Munich branch of the House.
Emperor Frederick II deposed the rebellious Henry XII "the Lion" (+1195), Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, and bestowed the Duchy of Bavaria to Otto of Wittelsbach (+1183) (1180).
Louis "the Senior" (+1361), Margrave of Brandenburg and Lusatia, and the second husband of Countess Margaret "Maultasche" of Tyrol, inherited the Upper Bavaria (1347).
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bavaria
Bavaria (German Bayern), state in southeastern Germany, bounded on the north by the states of Thüringen and Saxony (Sachsen), on the northeast by the...
Augsburg, city in south central Germany, in Bavaria, at the confluence of the Lech and Wertach rivers.
Louis I (of Bavaria), Louis II (of Bavaria)
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 Louis I of Bavaria
Louis I of Bavaria (35) was the father of Carolman (34) and Princess Adelaide (34).
Louis I of Bavaria was the son of Louis Le DeBonnaire of France (36) (778 - 840).
Louis invaded Lotharingia (870), and the country was divided between Louis and Charles by the Treaty of Mersen (Meerssen), under which Louis received Friesland and an extremely large expansion of this territory west of the Rhine.
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(Strasburg 1786-Nizza 1868), king of Bavaria in 1825-1848, son of Maximilian I. He served in Napoleon's army from 1806 until 1809; an later was a head of unti-French party in Germany.
Louis XV (1710-1774) king of France in 1715-1774); great-grandson of Louis XIV.
He became titular king after the death of Louis XVII in 1795 and ascended the throne at the Bourbon restoration in 1814.
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 Louis II, the German, Eastern Frankish King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louis tried desperately to work Charles in as a successor, but the three brothers fought him everytime he tried to reform his will.
In 840, Louis the Pious died, and the three surviving brothers began a civil war for the division of the Empire.
In 841, Charles and Louis of Bavaria ganged up on their brother Lothar, who had the support of Pepin II, who were defeated at Fontenay, France.
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 My Family
Parents: King Louis I of the Franks, Emperor of the West and Irmgarde (Ermengarde) of Hesbain.
Children were: King Phillip Capet of France, Louis VII of France, Bishop of Rouen Henry Capet ofBeauvais, Robert Capet Count of Dreux 1st, Philip Capet Bishop of Paris, Constance Capet of Toulouse.
Louis VII (The Young) Parents: King Louis VI of France and Adelaide de Maurienne of Savoy.
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 Battle of Fontenoy/Treaty of Verdun 843/Partition of Mersen 870   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It unravels the past by dividing the empire and it set the course for the future in that the division laid out the foundations of the nation states that were to emerge in the subsequent centuries.
After Ermengarde’s death Louis married Judith of Bavaria and in 823 they had a son Charles, who came to be known as Charles the Bald.
When Pepin died Louis proposed another partition in 837 and gave Aquitaine to Charles, but the transition was not smooth — Pepin’s son, Pepin II revolted and contested Charles’ right to rule in Aquitaine.
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 Louis III of Bavaria -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ludwig III (7 January 1845 - 18 October 1921) was briefly Prince Regent of Bavaria and was the last King of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918.
He was born in (The capital and largest city of Bavaria in southeastern Germany) Munich, the son of Prince (Click link for more info and facts about Luitpold of Bavaria) Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912) and his wife, Augusta of Tuscany (1825-1864)
On the death of her uncle Francis in 1875, she became heir to his (A supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts) Jacobite claim to the throne of England, and is called either Queen Mary IV and III or Queen Mary III by Jacobites.
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