House of Wittelsbach
The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria.
Members of the family were rulers of Bavaria, either as Dukes, Electors or Kings, from 1180 until the revolution in 1918, after the defeat of Germany in World War I.
Other land, controlled by other branches of the family include
| Territory | From | To | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Counts Palatine of the Rhine | 1214 | 1803 | Break during the Napoleonic Wars |
| 1816 | 1918 | ||
| Margraves of Brandenburg | 1323 | 1373 | |
| Counts of Holland | 1345 | 1432 | |
| Counts of Hainaut | |||
| Counts of Zeeland | |||
| Elector-Archbishops of Cologne | 1583 | 1761 | |
| Dukes of Jülich | 1614 | 1794 | Until occupied by the French |
| Dukes of Berg | 1806 | ||
| Kings of Sweden | 1441 | 1448 | Christopher of Bavaria as Kristofer av Bayern |
| 1654 | 1720 | Charles X Gustav, Charles XI, Charles XII  , Ulrika Eleonora
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| Dukes of Bremen-Verden | 1654 | 1719 |
Wittelsbachs also ruled as
| Title | Reign started | Reign ended | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Roman Emperor | 1328 | 1347 | Louis IV |
| 1742 | 1745 | Charles VII | |
| King of the Romans | 1400 | 1410 | Rupert |
| Anti-Kings of Bohemia | 1619 | 1620 | Frederick V, the Winter King |
| 1741 | 1743 | Karel (VII) Albrecht Bavorský | |
| King of Hungary | 1305 | 1308 | Béla V |
| King of Denmark | 1440 | 1448 | Christopher of Bavaria as Christoffer af Bayern |
| King of Norway | 1442 | Christopher of Bavaria as Christoffer av Bayern | |
| King of Greece | 1832 | 1862 | Otto I of Greece |
House Of Wittelsbach Media
Coat of arms (13th to 14th century). 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.
The Wittelsbach dominions within the Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, The Netherlands and Palatinate) 1373 are shown as Wittelsbach, among the houses of Luxembourg which acquired Brandenburg that year and Habsburg which had acquired Tyrol in 1369
The Electorate of Bavaria highlighted on a map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1648
The Electorate of the Palatinate (red) which lost the yellow territories in 1505, after the War of the Succession of Landshut
Heidelberg Castle, the seat of the Electors of Palatinate until destroyed by the French in March 1689.
Royal Bavarian coat of arms
Aerial image of the Nymphenburg Palace
The Swedish Empire following the Treaty of Roskilde of 1658
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