Karl Johann Franz of Bavaria

Karl Johann Franz von Bayern (born November 10, 1618 in Munich , † May 19, 1640 ibid) was a Prince of Bavaria and temporarily presumptive Bavarian heir to the throne.

Life

Karl Johann Franz was the eldest son of Duke Albrecht VI. von Bayern (1584–1666) from his marriage to Mechthilde (1588–1634), daughter of Landgrave Georg Ludwig von Leuchtenberg .

Karl Johann Franz grew up at the court of his uncle Maximilian , who oversaw his upbringing. After his father, Karl Johann Franz was considered the Bavarian heir to the throne until the birth of Prince Ferdinand Maria in 1636. In 1636, Elector Maximilian, with whom he was in very close contact, gave him a special amount of maintenance. But even after the birth of Ferdinand Maria, Karl Johann Franz continued to prepare for the government. In addition to respect for his uncle, the training also included studying the works of Justus Lipsius and Carlo Scribani as well as regularly attending meetings of the court council.

Karl Franz Johann died unmarried at the age of 21 and was buried in the Frauenkirche in Munich . The funeral sermon Phoenix, or princely sun bird , given by the Jesuit father Johannes Bissel, was published in 1640 by Cornelius Leysser.

literature

• Johannes Bissel: Phoenix or Princely Son [n] envogel: That is, Christian corpse and honorary sermons From the divine life and change: as well as the high-sacred absence of the transmissive princes ... Iohannis Francisci Caroli Pfaltzgraffen near the Rhine, moved in Obern and Nidern Bayrn c. miltseeligister memory nut . Munich 1640. Digitized
• Dieter Albrecht: Maximilian I of Bavaria 1573-1651 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1998, p. 153

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Boge, Ralf Georg Bogner: Oratio funebris: The Catholic funeral sermon of the early modern times , Rodopi, 1999, p. 395