Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria

Bavarian prince (1795–1875)

Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin

(m. 1823; died 1838)

Names
German: Karl Theodor Maximilian August English: Charles Theodore Maximilian Augustus

HouseWittelsbachFatherMaximilian I Joseph of BavariaMotherAugusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt

Prince Karl Theodor Maximilian August of Bavaria (7 July 1795 – 16 August 1875); and grand prior of the order of Malta, was a Bavarian soldier.^[1]

Early life

Charles was born in Munich on 7 July 1795. He was the second son of King Maximilian I of Bavaria and his first wife Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.^[1]

Career

Charles fought against Napoleon at the Battle of Hanau in 1813, became a general of division, and took part in the Campaign of 1814. His differences with Prince Wrede led to his retirement from 1822 till some time after the latter's death in 1838, when his brother King Ludwig I of Bavaria appointed him field marshal and general inspector of the army. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, he was commander-in-chief of the 7th and 8th corps of the Bavarian Army, being allied with Austria. His troops, some 52,000 men, served in the Main Campaign.^[2] Afterwards he retired from public service.^[1]

Personal life

He married, morganatically, on 1 October 1823 with Marie-Anne-Sophie Petin (27 July 1796, Neuburg – 22 February 1838, Munich), who was created Baroness von Bayrstorff upon their marriage.^[3] She was a daughter of Franz Moritz Petin and Baroness Maria Theodora von Branca. Before her death at Tegernsee in 1838, they were the parents of three daughters:^[4]

Caroline Sophie von Bayrstorff (17 October 1816 – 25 May 1889), who married Adolf, Baron von Gumppenberg (1804–1877) in 1834.^[5]
Maximiliane Theodore von Bayrstorff (30 September 1823 – 19 March 1885), who married August, Count von Drechsel zu Deufstetten (1810–1880), in 1841.^[5]
Franziska Sophie von Bayrstorff (10 October 1827 – 2 March 1912), who married Portuguese-Brazilian nobleman Paulo Martins, Viscount d'Almeida (1807–1874) in 1845.^[5]

Prince Karl fell from his horse while riding at Tegernsee in Bavaria on 16 August 1875 and was killed instantly.^[6]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of Maximiliane, Baroness von Gumppenberg (1850–1937),^[7] who married Count Maximilian von Holnstein, a close friend of King Ludwig II who brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck.^[8]^[9]

Honours

Bavaria:
- Knight of St. Hubert, 1810^[10]
- Grand Prior of the Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of St. George, 1813^[10]
- Knight of the Military Order of Max Joseph, 18 February 1814^[11]
- Grand Cross of Merit of the Bavarian Crown^[12]
- Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order^[13]
- Army Memorial Cross (1866)^[11]
Austria:^[14]
- Knight of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, 1814
- Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1843
- Knight of the Golden Fleece, 1859
Baden:^[15]
- Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1840
- Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1840
Brazil: Grand Cross of the Order of Pedro I^[16]
Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, June 1842^[17]
Tuscan Grand Ducal Family: Grand Cross of St. Joseph^[16]
Hesse-Darmstadt: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 21 September 1842^[18]
Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class^[19]
Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer^[16]
Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion^[16]
Prussia:
- Knight of the Black Eagle, 10 November 1823^[20]
- Knight of the Red Eagle, 1st Class^[16]
Russia:^[16]
- Knight of St. Alexander Nevsky, 16 September 1813^[21]
- Knight of St. George, 4th Class, 29 January 1814^[21]
- Knight of St. Andrew, 7 August 1838
- Knight of St. Anna, 1st Class
- Knight of the White Eagle
Saxony:^[22]
- Knight of the Rue Crown, 1822
- Knight of the Military Order of St. Henry, 1870
Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 16 July 1852^[23]
Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1865^[24]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria

8. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

4. Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

9. Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken

2. Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria

10. Joseph Charles, Hereditary Prince of Sulzbach

5. Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach

11. Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg

1. Prince Charles of Bavaria

12. Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

6. Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt

13. Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg

3. Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt

14. Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

7. Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

15. Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms-Rödelheim

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 309.
^ Wagner, Arthur Lockwood (1889). The Campaign of Königgrätz: A Study of the Austro-Prussian Conflict in the Light of the American Civil War. Fort Leavenworth. p. 15.
^ Ehrlich, Anna; Bauer, Christa (28 January 2016). Erzherzogin Sophie: Die starke Frau am Wiener Hof. Franz Josephs Mutter, Sisis Schwiegermutter (in German). Amalthea Signum Verlag. p. 21. ISBN 978-3-903083-10-3. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Minkels, Dorothea (14 January 2020). Briefwechsel des Königspaares Band 3: Friedrich Wilhelm & Elisabeth von Preussen / 1844-1845 Der Industrie- und Kunstförderer & Protektorin sozialer Einrichtungen (in German). BoD – Books on Demand. p. 412. ISBN 978-3-7494-0294-6. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Burke's Peerage. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-85011-029-6. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ "DEATH OF PRINCE CHARLES OF BAVARIA". The Daily Telegraph. 17 August 1875. p. 5. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A. (1879). The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Vol. 13. WENTWORTH Press. p. 309. ISBN 9781360210124. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
^ Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 793. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
^ "Bayerischer Kurier: 1877,9/12". Bayerischer Kurier (in German). Lentner. 1877. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Bayern (1819). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1819. Landesamt. pp. 6, 21.
^ ^a ^b "Karl Theodor Maximilian August Kgl. Prinz von Bayern K.H." the Prussian Machine. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ Bayern (1824). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1824. Landesamt. p. 27.
^ Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. p. 94.
^ "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1874, pp. 51, 53, 56, retrieved 11 September 2020
^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1862), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 32, 43
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bayern (1867). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Königreichs Bayern: 1867. Landesamt. pp. 108, 110, 123, 130, 136.
^ Adreß-Handbuch des Herzogthums Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1843), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 7
^ Hessen-Darmstadt (1860). Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Hessen: für das Jahr ... 1860. Staatsverl. p. 8.
^ Hof- und Adreß-Handbuch des Fürstenthums Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen: 1844. Beck und Fränkel. 1844. p. 20.
^ Liste der Ritter des Königlich Preußischen Hohen Ordens vom Schwarzen Adler (1851), "Von Seiner Majestät dem Könige Friedrich Wilhelm III. ernannte Ritter" p. 18
^ ^a ^b Almanach de la cour: pour l'année ... 1817. l'Académie Imp. des Sciences. 1817. pp. 78, 142.
^ Staatshandbuch für den Freistaat Sachsen: 1873. Heinrich. 1873. pp. 3, 33.
^ Sveriges och Norges Statskalender (in Swedish), 1872, p. 460, retrieved 11 September 2020 – via runeberg.org
^ Württemberg (1873). Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Württemberg: 1873. p. 32.

References

Lundy, Darryl (20 January 2009). "Karl Prinz von Bayern". p. 10179 §101784.
- Louda, Jirí; MacLagan, Michael (1999). Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe (2nd ed.). London: Little, Brown and Company. table 97.

Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Charles, prince of Bavaria" . The American Cyclopædia. p. 309.