When Otto I, Count of Scheyern died in 1072, his third son Otto II, Count of Scheyern acquired Wittelsbach Castle (near Aichach). The House of Windsor, the reigning royal house of the British monarchy, are descendants of Sophia of Hanover (1630-1714), a Wittelsbach Princess of the Palatinate by birth and Electress of Hanover by marriage, who had inherited the succession rights of the House of Stuart and passed them on to the House of Hanover. They ruled over the Kingdom of Bavaria which was created in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. Their ancestral lands of Bavaria and the Palatinate were prince-electorates, and the family had three of its members elected emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire. The House of Wittelsbach ( German: Haus Wittelsbach) is a former Bavarian dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including the Electorate of Bavaria, the Electoral Palatinate, the Electorate of Cologne, Holland, Zeeland, Sweden (with Swedish-ruled Finland), Denmark, Norway, Hungary (with Romania), Bohemia, and Greece.

Runow Auguste, Princess Ferdinand of Lippe-Weissenfeld Alice, Princess Lukas of Auersperg Prince Ludwig Prince Heinrich Prince Karl Prince Tassilo Prince Richard Prince Philipp Prince Corbian Prince Stanislaus Prince Marcello Princess Odilia de Loayza Princess Gabrielle, Duchess of Cröy Princess Sophie, Duchess of Arenberg Prince Ludwig Maria Elisabeth, Princess Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza Aldegunde Maria, Baroness Zdenko von Hoenning-O'Carroll Adelgunde, Countess Konstantin of Waldburg-Zeil Dorothea, Dowager Grand Duchess of Tuscany Prince Rasso Great-Grandchildren Marie Gabrielle, Princess of Waldburg-Zeil Marie Charlotte, Princess of Quadt Franz, Duke of Bavaria Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria Prince Luitpold Princess Irmingard Maria Princess Philippa Maria-Theresia, Countess Tamas Kornis de Goncz-Ruszka Prince Franz-Josef Elisabeth, Countess Andreas von Kuefstein Prince Wolfgang Princess Benedikta, Baroness von Freyberg-Eisenberg Prince Christoph Gisela, Margravine of Meissen Great-Great-Grandchildren Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein Marie-Caroline, Duchess Philipp of Württemberg Princess Hélène Princess Elizabeth, Mrs. Dienst Prince Konstantin Princess Bernadette Prince Hubertus Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandchildren Prince Leopold Princess AlvaĬhildren Crown Prince Rupprecht Adelgunde, Princess of Hohenzollern Princess Maria, Duchess of Calabria Prince Karl Prince Franz Mathilde, Princess Ludwig of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Wolfgang Princess Hildegarde Princess Notburga Princess Wiltrud, Duchess of Urach Princess Helmtrud Princess Dietlinde Gundelinde, Countess Johann Georg von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos Grandchildren Hereditary Prince Luitpold Princess Irmingard Maria Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria Prince Rudolf Prince Heinrich Princess Irmingard Princess Editha, Mrs. Poletti Prince Eugen Infante Luis of Spain Infante José of Spain Maria, Princess Irakli Bagration of Mukhrani Infanta Marie of Spain Prince Konstantin Prince Alexander Great-Great-Great-Grandchildren Prince Leopold Prince Adalbert Princess Ysabel, Baroness of Stichsenstein Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandchildren Prince Manuel Princess Maria del Pilar Princess Maria Felipa, Mrs. Bavarian RoyaltyĬhildren Ludwig I Princess Augusta Princess Amalie Marie Princess Charlotte Prince Karl Theodor Prince Karl Friedrich Elisabeth Ludovika, Queen of Prussia Princess Amalie Auguste Archduchess Sophie of Austria Maria Anna, Queen of Saxony Princess Ludovika Princess MaximilianaĬhildren Maximilian II Mathilde, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine Otto of Greece Princess Theodelinde Prince Regent Luitpold Adelgunde, Duchess of Modena Archduchess Hildegarde, Duchess of Teschen Princess Alexandra Prince Adalbert Grandchildren Ludwig III Prince Leopold Princess Therese Prince Arnulf Prince Ludwig Ferdinand Prince Alfons Princess Isabella, Duchess of Genoa Princess Elvira Princess Clara Great-Grandchildren Elisabeth Marie, Countess Otto of Seefried and Buttenheim Archduchess Auguste of Austria Prince Georg Prince Konrad Prince Heinrich Prince Ferdinand Prince Adalbert Princess Pilar Prince Joseph Clemens Princess Elizabeth Maria, Countess of Kageneck Great-Great-Grandchildren Princess Amalie Isabella, Mrs. The white-and-blue lozenges came to the family when Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria acquired the county of Bogen in 1240 Coat of arms (15th century), the Wittelsbach (Bogen) lozenges quartered with the lion of the Palatinate. Löwenstein: (morganatic, extant) Löwenstein-Scharffeneck Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg Löwenstein-Wertheim-FreudenbergĬoat of arms (13th to 14th century). Palatinate branch: (extant) Palatinate-Simmern Palatinate-Sulzbach Palatinate-Neumarkt Palatinate-Zweibrücken Palatinate-Birkenfeld Bavaria branch: (extinct) Bavaria-Landshut Bavaria-Straubing Bavaria-Ingolstadt Bavaria-Munich.

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