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Frederick (1339 – 4 December 1393) was Duke of Bavaria from 1375. He was the second son of Stephen II and Elizabeth of Sicily.
- List of monarchs of Bavaria
After the death of Stephan II in 1392, Bavaria-Landshut was...
- Frederick II, Duke of Swabia
Duke Frederick II died in 1147 at Alzey. He was buried at...
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- Birth, Exile, Captivity, and Education
- Patron of Modern Art
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Franz was born on 14 July 1933 in Munich, as the third child and elder son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, and his first wife, Countess Maria (Marita) Draskovich of Trakostjan, member of the House of Drašković, an old Croatian noble family. As Maria's family didn't belong to the small circle of reigning or former reigning families, his parents' marri...
Franz developed a passion for modern art and started to collect contemporary German art. He brought his own important art collection with early works by Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo as well as numerous contemporary German painters such as Jörg Immendorff and Sigmar Polke on permanent loan to the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, ...
The respective head of the House of Wittelsbach appoints the board of directors of the foundation Wittelsbach Compensation Fund, into which most of the possessions from the former Wittelsbach House Property Fund were transferred in 1923, including art treasures and collections (in particular the art collection of King Ludwig I, today mostly in the ...
Franz has had a life partner since 1980, Thomas Greinwald, although they have never married. In August 2011, the duke appeared at Prince George Frederick of Prussia's wedding, accompanied by Greinwald and his first cousin once removed – and future heir – Prince Ludwig. They first appeared publicly as a couple in Munich in 2023. The heir presumptive...
Titles and styles
Franz is traditionally styled as His Royal Highness the Duke of Bavaria, of Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Franz was styled Prinz von Bayern at birth. In 1996, after the death of his father, he changed his style to Herzog von Bayern('Duke of Bavaria').
Honours
1. Germany: Commander's cross (Großes Verdienstkreuz) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2. Vatican: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre 3. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Protector Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, 1st Class 4. Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit 5. Romania: Knight Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit 6. House of Habsburg: Knigh...
- 8 July 1996 – present
- Max-Emanuel
4 mar 2024 · Frederick II, king of Sicily (1197–1250), duke of Swabia (as Frederick VI, 1228–35), German king (1212–50), and Holy Roman emperor (1220–50). A Hohenstaufen, he pursued his dynasty’s imperial policies against the papacy and the Italian city-states. He also joined in the Sixth Crusade (1228–29).
- Gunther Wolf
Frederick II, Duke of Swabia. Mother. Judith of Bavaria. Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (German: Friedrich I; Italian: Federico I ), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190.
t. e. Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
