Mathilde in Bavaria
Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (born September 30, 1843 in Possenhofen , † June 18, 1925 in Munich ) came from the line of the dukes in Bavaria of the House of Wittelsbach and became Princess of Bourbon-Sicily by marriage .
Life
Mathilde was born in 1843 as the fourth daughter of Duke Maximilian in Bavaria (1808-1888) and his wife Ludovika von Bayern (1808-1892) in Possenhofen. In Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg and Munich Mathilde spent much of her childhood. Of her seven siblings, she was probably closest to her next older sister Marie , Queen of the Two Sicilies from 1859 .
On June 5, 1861 Mathilde was married in Munich to Count Ludwig von Trani , who was the younger brother of the King of the Two Sicilies. It so happened that Mathilde spent most of the first years of her marriage with her sister Marie in Rome , where she allegedly had an affair with a young officer.
In 1867 she gave birth to her first and only child, Maria Theresia , called Mädi (1867–1909), later Princess of Hohenzollern . Countess Trani's marriage turned out to be very unpleasant. Her husband cheated on her and was likely addicted to alcohol, so she later preferred to part with him entirely. She spent most of the year traveling, was often to be found in Paris , Feldafing and Baden-Baden , mostly accompanied by her sisters Marie and Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary .
Mathilde was a pretty woman, like all her sisters, but so thin and with such a squeaky voice that her family often called her "Sparrow". She widowed in 1886 (her husband probably died by suicide, according to other sources of an illness that had plagued him for a long time).
During the First World War Mathilde lived in Switzerland , later again with her older sister Marie in Munich. She survived this by half a year and was the last of the duke's children to die in 1925. Her grave in the Munich forest cemetery (old part) was closed in 1977 and re-occupied.
Movie
Sisi's famous siblings, BR documentary by Bernhard Graf, 2016
literature
- Bernhard Graf : Sisi's siblings. Allitera, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3869069777 .
- Marita A. Panzer: Wittelsbach women. Princely daughters of a European dynasty . Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2419-5 , p. 182-184 .
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| SURNAME | Bavaria, Mathilde in |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bavaria, Mathilde Ludovika Duchess in |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess in Bavaria from the House of Wittelsbach, Princess of Bourbon-Sicily |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Possenhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1925 |
| Place of death | Munich |