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House of Wittelsbach

German noble family; 1180–1918 monarchs of Bavaria; 1214–1803 counts palatine of the Rhine

  • Dated from 1180 CE
  • Also called Wittelsbach Dynasty, Wittelsbach, Wittelsbacher
The members Compare

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Wittelsbach-Bayern-Wappen
Hugo Gerard Ströhl  · Public domain

Overview

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Members · 62

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

Louis IV of Bavaria 1282 CE – 1347 CE

7 children in the house

  1. Louis V, Duke of Bavaria 1315 CE – 1361 CE
  2. Stephen II of Bavaria 1319 CE – 1375 CE
  3. Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg 1328 CE – 1365 CE
  4. William I, Duke of Bavaria 1330 CE – 1389 CE
  5. Albert I, Duke of Bavaria 1336 CE – 1404 CE 1 child in the house
  6. Beatrice of Bavaria 1344 CE – 1359 CE
  7. Otto V, Duke of Bavaria 1346 CE – 1379 CE
One family in House of Wittelsbach: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Prince-Elector

  • 23 holders
  • 4 overlapping pairs
  • 18 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1356 CE – 15 November 1373 CE Otto V, Duke of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria
  2. from 1612 CE Ferdinand of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne
  3. 1723 CE – 1761 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)
  4. 1799 CE – 1806 CE Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria King of Bavaria
  5. 1799 CE – 1806 CE Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria King of Bavaria

No dates recorded 18

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Elector Palatine

  • 14 holders
  • 1 gap
  • 5 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1508 CE – 1544 CE Louis V Elector Palatine
  2. 1544 CE – 1556 CE Frederick II, Elector Palatine Prince-elector of the Palatinate from 1544 to 1556
  3. 1556 CE – 1559 CE Otto Henry Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1505 to 1559
  4. 1559 CE – 1576 CE Frederick III of the Palatinate Elector Palatine (1515-1576)

  5. Gap about 72 years before the next in this house

    1648 CE – 1680 CE Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine Elector palatine of the Rhine (1617–1680)
  6. 1680 CE – 1685 CE Charles II, Elector Palatine Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685
  7. 1685 CE – 1690 CE Philip William, Elector Palatine German nobleman (1615-1690)
  8. 1690 CE – 1716 CE Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine German nobleman (1658–1716)
  9. 1716 CE – 1742 CE Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine Elector Palatine, Duke of Jülich and Berg and Count Palatine of Neuburg (1661-1742)

No dates recorded 5

Duke of Bavaria

  • 13 holders
  • 2 overlaps
  • 1 gap
  • 7 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1347 CE – 1349 CE Stephen II of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria-Landshut

  2. Overlap held at the same time as Stephen II of Bavaria

    1347 CE – 1349 CE Otto V, Duke of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria
  3. 1349 CE – 1353 CE Stephen II of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria-Landshut
  4. 1353 CE – 1375 CE Stephen II of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria-Landshut

  5. Overlap held at the same time as Stephen II of Bavaria

    1363 CE Stephen II of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria-Landshut

  6. Gap about 54 years before the next in this house

    1417 CE – 1425 CE John III, Duke of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland and Hainaut (1375–1425)

No dates recorded 7

Prince-Bishop

  • 13 holders
  • 32 overlapping pairs
  • 4 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. from 1612 CE Ferdinand of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne
  2. from 1618 CE Ferdinand of Bavaria Archbishop of Cologne
  3. 1690 CE – 1737 CE Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz-Neuburg Roman Catholic bishop (1663-1737) Has references
  4. from 12 November 1691 CE Louis Anton of Pfalz-Neuburg Roman Catholic bishop (1660-1694) Has references
  5. 1716 CE – 1719 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)
  6. 1719 CE – 1761 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)
  7. 1719 CE – 1761 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)
  8. 1724 CE – 1761 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)
  9. 1728 CE – 1761 CE Clemens August of Bavaria Catholic archbishop (1700-1761)

No dates recorded 4

Every recorded holder

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How House of Wittelsbach connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Succession in office 1

What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission 2

What this means

Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

3 statements on this record

  • 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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