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  MAXIMILIAN II., KING OF BAVARIA - LoveToKnow Article on MAXIMILIAN II., KING OF BAVARIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
MAXIMILIAN I. (MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH) (1756-1825), king of Bavaria, was the son of the count palatine Frederick of Zwei-briicken-Birkenfeld, and was born on the 27th of May 1756.
At Vienna and afterwards Maximilian sturdily opposed any reconstitution of Germany which should endanger the indepen- dence of Bavaria, and it was his insistence on the principle of full sovereignty being left to the German reigning princes that argely contributed to the loose and weak organization of the new erman Confederation.
Maximilian was compelled to assent to the treaty of Arras in 1482 between the states of the Netherlands and Louis XI.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
The Court of Mary and Maximilian was one of the jewels of the Renaissance; and the Burgundian knotty ("raguly") Cross ("saltire") of St. Andrew became a feature of flags in the Low Countries and later of Hapsburg Spain.
Count Gaston III marries the sister of King Charles the Bad of Navarre, but this relationship comes to naught when Gaston, the son of the Count and the only legitimate heir, is starved to death by his father.
Bavaria, allied with the French, was lost to the Elector Maximilian II for the rest of the war.
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 FUSSEN - LoveToKnow Article on FUSSEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, at the foot of the Alps (Tirol), on the Lech, 2500 ft. above the sea, with a branch line to Oberdorf on the railway to Augsburg.
The castle, lying on a rocky eminence, is remarkable for the peace signed here on the 22nd of April 1745 between the elector Maximilian III., Joseph of Bavaria and Maria Theresa.
Two miles to the S.E., immediately on the Austrian frontier, romantically situated on a rock overlooking the Schwanensee, is the magnificent castle of Hohenschwangau, and a little to the north, on the site of an old castle, that of Neuschwanstein, built by Louis II.
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 ELIZABETH (1596-1662) - Online Information article about ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
death at Liitzen was followed by that of the elector at See also:
Subsequent attempts of the princess to reinstate her son in his dominions were unsuccessful, and it was not till the See also:
RUPERT, PRINCE, COUNT PALATINE OF THE RHINE AND DUKE OF BAVARIA (1619—1682)
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 Timeline 1450-1499
1455 Aug 2, Johan Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (1486-99), was born.
Ferdinand I succeeded to the throne of Naples, but Pope Calixtus III declared the line of Aragon extinct and the kingdom a fief of the church.
Serbian national identity survived with the restoration in 1557 of the Serbian patriarchate at Pec.
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