Wilhelm in Bavaria

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Wilhelm in Bavaria

Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria (born November 10, 1752 in Gelnhausen , † January 8, 1837 in Bamberg ) was Count Palatine and Duke of Gelnhausen . He was the first Duke in Bavaria since February 16, 1799 , a newly created title of the only remaining Wittelsbach branch line, which also came from the Palatinate, besides Bavaria's ruling line of the Elector . He never ruled his own principality, but was governor in the Duchy of Berg from December 17, 1803 to March 20, 1806 .

Life

His parents were Johann von Pfalz-Gelnhausen and Sophie Charlotte von Salm-Dhaun (1719–1770). He married Maria Anna Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, the sister of the Duke Charles II August. And the future Bavarian King Maximilian I .

In 1778 Wilhelm became an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Wilhelm resided in Landshut and in 1797, as the last relative entitled to inherit, concluded the Ansbach house contract with the later Elector and King of Bavaria Maximilian I , in which the unity and indivisibility of the Wittelsbach states was established. When he took office as elector, he received the title of Duke in Bavaria on February 16, 1799 . In the apanagial trial of 1803, Wilhelm, the elector's brother-in-law, was granted the duchy of Berg as an apanage and thus the governorship . Until 1806, when the duchy was ceded to Napoleon , Wilhelm represented the elector in the duchy. He could not reside in the destroyed Düsseldorf Palace , but instead turned to inns, later to the Governor's Palace and Benrath Palace .

After secularization , Wilhelm acquired the Banz monastery near Staffelstein in 1813 . Since then, this has also been called Schloss Banz . The Banz Regional Court , which was also acquired , thus became the Banz Regional Court . It was later sold to the Order of Angels, with the forests remaining with the ducal house. Today these forests have become the property of the ruling house of Liechtenstein through marriage .

The body was buried on January 14, 1837 in the crypt under the Banz Castle Church. Wilhelm had decreed that his heart should be buried in the Banzer castle church of St. Dionysius and St. Peter on the left in the main nave in the middle pillar. In 1883, Duke Max Joseph in Bavaria had the Banz family crypt dissolved and the coffins of the family members transferred to the new burial place under the Tegernsee Castle Church.

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New nekrolog der Deutschen , S. 61f, digitized

progeny

⚭ 1808 Louis-Alexandre Berthier , Marshal of France, Prince of Wagram, Duke of Neufchâtel (1753–1815)
⚭ 1807 Princess Amalie Luise von Arenberg (1789–1823)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margot Hamm (Ed.): Bavaria is born. Montgelas and his Ansbacher Mémoire from 1796. Catalog for the exhibition of the House of Bavarian History in cooperation with the Bavarian Main State Archives in Ansbach and Munich 1996/97. Verlag Pustet, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7917-1535-6 , p. 101.
  2. ^ Honorary members - Wilhelm Count Palatine von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen, later Duke in Bavaria. Bavarian Academy of Sciences - online, accessed on July 3, 2009 : “Wilhelm Pfalzgraf von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen, sp. Duke in Bavaria, * 1752 Gelnhausen, Hesse; † 1837 Landshut. "
  3. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32320-0 , pp. 1233f.
  4. ^ The dukes of Berg from the lines Pfalz-Sulzbach and Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, 1742–1806.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Herzog in Bavaria (1752-1837)
personal data
SURNAME Wilhelm in Bavaria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wittelsbach nobleman and governor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelnhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1837
Place of death Bamberg