Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria
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Louis Ferdinand (German: Ludwig Ferdinand; Spanish: Luis Fernando) (1859-1949), was a Bavarian prince and Spanish infante.
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[edit] General Information
He was the eldest son of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828-75) and Infanta Amalia Philippina of Spain (1834-1905). He was a paternal grandson of King Louis I of Bavaria (1786-1868, reigned 1825-48, the king of Lola Montez fame) and his first wife Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg. His maternal grandparents were Infante Francis of Spain, Duke of Cadiz, and his wife Princess Luisa of the Two Sicilies.
Louis Ferdinand's paternal uncles were King Maximilian II of Bavaria, King Otto I of Greece and Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria. His maternal uncle was King-Consort Francis of Spain (1822-1902) and maternally his first cousin was Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-85), two years his senior. Louis Ferdinand was born in Madrid, but his younger siblings in Bavaria where they had returned.
Louis II, Otto I and Louis III, Kings of Bavaria, were his first cousins. Alfonso XIII (reigned 1885-1931) was a first cousin's son.
[edit] Marriage
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria was married in 1883 to his maternal first cousin, Infanta Maria da Paz of Spain (1862-1946), the second-youngest daughter of his uncle King Francis and Queen Regnant Isabella II of Spain (reigned from 1833 up to 1868 when deposed, abdicated 1870 and died 1904). The wedding took place in Madrid, during her brother Alfonso XII's reign. In 1885 the young couple returned to Bavaria, resided chiefly in Nymphenburg Palace.
They established the so-called Spanish branch of the Bavarian royal family, started with Louis Ferdinand's parents' marriage but strengthened by successive Spanish marriages in altogether three generations.
[edit] Children
They had following children:
- Infante Ferdinand of Spain, Prince of Bavaria (1884-1958), born in Madrid and settled permanently in Spain in 1905.
- Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886-1970). Married Countess Augusta of Seefried and had two sons; lived in Germany.
- Princess Pilar of Bavaria (1891-1987), unmarried.
[edit] His son's marriage
His son Infante Ferdinand married in 1906 his first cousin Infanta Maria Teresa Isabel Eugenia Patricinio Diega of Spain (1882-1912), the second daughter of Alfonso XII and Maria Cristina of Austria, the queen-regent. This marriage and the granted royal rank in Spain meant that Ferdinand (also known as Infante don Fernando Maria de Baviera y de Borbon), the third-generation Spanish-Bavarian committed himself to Spain. His second marriage with a spanish noblewoman changed nothing in that respect.
[edit] Grandchildren
The marriage with Princess Teresa produced following children:
- Infante Luis Alfonso de Baviera y de Borbon (1906-83), unmarried and childless
- Infante Jose Eugenio de Baviera y de Borbon (1909-66), married Maria Solange de Mesia y Lesseps and had issue (Maria Cristina, Fernando Juan, Maria Teresa and Luis Alfonso; married Spanish gentry and nobility, have issue)
- Infanta Maria Mercedes de Baviera y de Borbon (1911-53), Princess Bagration-Moukhransky, from 1946 wife of Prince Irakli Bagration of Moukhrany (1909-77), mother of Princess Maria Viktoria and Prince Bagrat Juan who have issue.
Infante Ferdinand survived his mother by 12 years and his father by 9 years. Infante Ferdinand of Spain, Prince of Bavaria had Alfonso XIII as his first cousin and brother-in-law; Prince Carlos of the Two Sicilies was another brother-in-law. Spanish claimants Jaime, Duke of Segovia and Juan, Count of Barcelona were his nephews.
Both Louis Ferdinand and then Ferdinand died during the Franco regime, the former in Nymphenburg, Bavaria, and the latter in Madrid, Spain.
Louis Ferdinand's sisters were Isabella, Duchess of Genua; Elvira, Countess Kaunitz; and Clara, Abbess of St.Anna; and his younger brother was Prince Alphonse of Bavaria (1862-1933), husband of Louise of Orléans, daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Alencon and Sophia of Bavaria. Alphonse's son Prince Joseph Clemens of Bavaria lived 1902-90 and died childless and unmarried. A daughter, Elisabeth, became Countess Kageneck.
