Mathilde of Bavaria

Mathilde with her dog

Mathilde of Bavaria with her husband Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , 1900.

Mathilde Marie Theresia Henriette Christine Luitpolda Princess of Bavaria (born August 17, 1877 in Lindau , † August 6, 1906 in Davos ) was a Bavarian princess. She was the sixth child of Ludwig III. and his wife Maria Theresa of Modena .

Life

Mathilde Marie Theresia Henriette Christine Luitpolda was the third daughter of King Ludwig III. of Bavaria and the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este . She is considered the favorite granddaughter of the Prince Regent Luitpold .

The princess married Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on May 1, 1900 in Munich , a son of Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Leopoldina Teresa de Bragança , Infanta of the Brazilian Empire .

Mathilde died of a lung disease in Switzerland (Davos) at the age of 28. She is buried in an elaborate tomb in the St. Peter and Paul branch church in the Starnberg district of Riedern.

progeny

Antonius of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1901–1970)
Maria Immaculata of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1903-1940)

ancestors

Pedigree of Mathilde von Bayern
Great-great-grandparents	King Maximilian I Joseph (1756–1825) ⚭ 1785 Auguste Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt (1765–1796)	Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1763–1834) ⚭ 1785 Charlotte Georgine Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769–1818)	Grand Duke Ferdinand III. of Austria-Tuscany (1769–1824) ⚭ 1790 Luisa Maria of Naples-Sicily (1773–1802)	Maximilian von Sachsen (1759–1838) ⚭ 1792 Caroline von Bourbon-Parma (1770–1804)	Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria (1754–1806) ⚭ 1812 Maria Beatrice d'Este (1750–1829)	King Victor Emanuel I of Sardinia (1759–1824) ⚭ 1789 Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1773–1832)	Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792) ⚭ 1765 Maria Ludovica of Spain (1745–1792)	Ludwig von Württemberg (1756–1817) ⚭ 1784 Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg (1780–1857)
Great grandparents	King Ludwig I (1786–1868) ⚭ 1810 Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1792–1854)		Grand Duke Leopold II of Austria-Tuscany (1797–1870) ⚭ 1816 Maria Anna of Saxony (1799–1832)		Archduke Franz IV of Austria-Este , Duke of Modena (1779–1846) ⚭ 1812 Maria Beatrix of Savoy (1792–1840)		Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria (1776–1847) ⚭ 1819 Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855)
Grandparents	Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821–1912) ⚭ 1844 Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1825–1864)				Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este (1821–1849) ⚭ 1847 Elisabeth Franziska Maria of Austria (1831–1903)
parents	King Ludwig III. (1845–1921) ⚭ 1868 Marie Therese of Austria-Este (1849–1919)
Mathilde of Bavaria

Works

Grave in the church of St. Peter and Paul in Rieden

Dream and life - poems of an early consummate. Verlag Süddeutsche Monatshefte , Munich 1910 (published anonymously posthumously).

literature

Martha Schad : Bavaria's queens. Pustet, Regensburg 1992, ISBN 3-7917-1341-8 , pp. 287-288.
Marie von Redwitz : Court Chronicle 1888–1921. Munich 1924, p. 287.

Web links

Commons : Mathilde von Bayern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ The week . No. 20, May 19, 1900, pp. 848, 850 (report on the wedding in Munich, with large photo).

personal data
SURNAME	Bavaria, Mathilde von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bavaria, Princess Mathilde of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Princess of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindau
DATE OF DEATH	August 6, 1906
Place of death	Davos

[1] The week . No. 20, May 19, 1900, pp. 848, 850 (report on the wedding in Munich, with large photo).