LOUIS III, King of Bavaria

1845–1921, last king of Bavaria (1913–18). He succeeded (1912) his father, Luitpold, as regent for the insane Otto I but proclaimed himself king in 1913. He was overthrown in the Bavarian revolution of Nov., 1918.

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The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version [Ancient and Modern History, V. II: Louis of Bavaria, 1315 to Ferdinand II, 1631] - Vol. 32
Book by John Morley, William F. Fleming, Voltaire; E. R. DuMont, 1901
...renounces his pretensions to the kingdom of Denmark: he gives his sister in marriage of King Waldemar III. and remains in possession of Jutland. 1341-43 Louis of Bavaria seems to have forgotten Italy, and gives tournaments at Munich. The new pope, Clement...
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History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
Book by William H. Prescott, John Foster Kirk; J. B. Lippincott, 1891
Subjects: Philip--Ii--King Of Spain--1527-1598
...CHAPTER III...REIGN OF TFRROR 329...Count Louis at Heyligerlee 338...Affecting Letter to the King 353 Final Arrangements...
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History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain - Vol. 2
Book by William H. Prescott; Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1855
Subjects: Philip--Ii--King Of Spain--1527-1598, Spain--History--Philip Ii, 1556-1598
...CHAPTER III. REIGN OF TERROR 218...Count Louis at Heyligerlee 242...Affecting Letter to the King 281...
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John, King of England
Book by John T. Appleby; Alfred A. Knopf, 1959
Subjects: John--King Of England--1167-1216
...to find him. After passing through Ger. many in their search, the abbots found their King in Bavaria, at a town where he had been brought for the purpose of holding a conference with the Emperor on Palm Sunday. They reported to Richard on the...
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Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden
Book by Carl Gustafson Klingspor, John A. Gade; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916
Subjects: Charles--Xii--King Of Sweden--1682-1718, Sweden--History
...as from an evil omen. CHAPTER III THE CALL TO THE THRONE AGAIN...throne. Shortly before the death of Charles the Eleventh, I had...to those alliances which the King had contracted in the best interests...Provinces on one side, and King Louis on the other. No small honor...
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journal articles on: Louis III King of Bavaria  - 36 results

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Possessing the Sacred: Monarchy and Identity in Philip II's Relic Collection at the Escorial
Journal article by Guy Lazure; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Kings and rulers--History, Kings--History, Philip II, King of Spain--History, Spanish monarchy--History
...and for holding strong in his new faith, the Visigothic King Hermenegildo had become over the ages the patron saint of the Spanish monarchy. Furthermore, Philip IIs heir, the future Philip III, was born on the Day of Saint Hermenegildo (14 April...
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Melancholy and Female Illness: Habsburg Women and Politics at the Court of Philip III'
Journal article by Magdalena S. Sánchez; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Women--History
...a weekly basis to visit the king and queen at the royal palace...Empress Maria and the Making of Political Policy in the Early...Diplomacy in the Spain of Philip III", (Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins...Styria and Archduchess Maria of Bavaria. Margaret of the Cross was the...
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Seeing the Shroud: Guarini's Reliquary Chapel in Turin and the Ostension of a Dynastic Relic
Journal article by John Beldon Scott; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Architecture, Art history, Church buildings, Exhibits, Guarini, Guarino (1624-83), Historic artifacts
...for the visit of the elector of Bavaria (1736), during the sojourn of Emperor Joseph II (1769), and to...celebrate Carlo Felices inauguration as king of Sardinia (1822).(81) These instances...the marriage of Carlo Emanuele III (1730-1773) and Elisabetta Teresa...
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The Making of a Romantic Icon
Journal article by Lionel Gossman; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
Subjects: Jews, Religion
...she has no daughter of her own, she asks the King to allow her to adopt...to her parents. The king insists, however, that she keep all the gifts of clothes and jewelry...by the Pietist Danish king to be the pastor of the German community...
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Into Thin Air: France, Germany, and the Invention of the Openwork Spire
Journal article by Robert Bork; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Architecture, Art history, Church buildings
...hilltop overlooking the future site of Freiburg. The citys foundation...dated to 1120, when Duke Berthold III and his brother Conrad established...not built in stone-poor areas of the empire, where brick construction predominated, such as Bavaria and the Baltic coast. Thus, while...
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Royal Peculiar: the Music and Patronage of Philippe of Orléans, Regent of France
Magazine article by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Summer 2007
Subjects: Art, Castles & palaces, Education, Music, Musicians & conductors, Painting
...but not unique among amateur musicians: Louis XIII had already shown the way, followed...Riche de La Poupliniere and the archbishop of Lyon Paul-Francois de Neuville de Villeroy...instrumental prelude opening the fifth scene of Act III is unique and an amazing case in point...
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The Other Joan of Arc: Beautiful, Clever and Determined, Yolande of Aragon Was at the Heart of the Diplomatic and Military Campaigns That United 15th-Century France. Margaret L. Kekewich Charts Her Career
Magazine article by Margaret L. Kekewich; History Today, Vol. 59, January 2009
Subjects: Military maneuvers--History, Military operations--History, Princesses--Appreciation, Princesses--History, Yolande of Aragon--Appreciation, Yolande of Aragon--History
...of France, Isabeau of Bavaria, who took most decisions on behalf of her sick husband, agreed...the eldest daughter of Louis II and Yolande. Charles...accession of the vigorous king Henry V in England led...two eldest sons, Louis III (1403-34), and Rene...
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Charlemagne in Italy
Magazine article by Ross Balzaretti; History Today, Vol. 46, February 1996
Subjects: Charlemagne--Conduct of life, Italy--History, Kings and rulers--Conduct of life, Lombardy, Italy--History
...768-772), Hadrian I (772-797) and Leo III (797-816). In all of these Charles responds to frequent...his devoutness (as the Christian king in Hadrians Life). The account of...Saxony; afterwards he became lord of Bavaria and over innumerable nations spread...
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Napoleon Invades America
Magazine article by Bernard Chevallier; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, July 1993
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Exhibitions, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814--Exhibitions
...Napoleon crowned himself King of Italy, placing the traditional...reinstated, and the Court of Louis XVI served as a model for...Austrian army that had invaded Bavaria. On Dec. 2, 1805, he won...1813, Frederick-William III of Prussia abandoned the...
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Napoleon the Kingmaker
Magazine article by Philip Mansel; History Today, Vol. 48, March 1998
Subjects: Europe--History, Monarchy--France, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...of Europe. To Louis XVIII he wrote...Borgo was one of several royalist...grandson the King of Rome than...Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany...received as a king. As they had...political programme of plebiscites and...one reason for Louis-Napoleons popularity...would be Napoleon III who, by the wars...
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newspaper articles on: Louis III King of Bavaria  - 3 results

 
 
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DOWNFALL OF A TEMPTRESS; She Was a Convent Girl Whose Erotic Beauty Led Her to Become the World's Most Fashionable Woman. but Then She Posed for This Sexually Charged Portrait - on Show for the First Time at the National Gallery - and Never Recovered from the Scandal
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 27, 2006
...extraordinary boom under Napoleon III. Everywhere were new department...first man to make her an offer of marriage, Pierre-Louis Gautreau, had no tempting physical...about La Belle Americaine, while King Ludwig of Bavaria came to the Paris opera just...
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When Ottoman Army Attacked Vienna
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 19, 2009
Subjects: Armies, Military maneuvers, Military operations
...to relieve the siege. Bavaria brought more than 11,000...artillery from Saxony. King John Sobieski of Poland, a proven warrior...from the wars against Louis XIV. At a very young age...August 1697, Sultan Mustafa III led 80,000 troops across...
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The Kidnap Kids; Real Life: The Price on the Heads; of the World's Richest Children
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 22, 1997
...decade the 14-year-old has had a king-size pounds 1.5m ransom on his...drafted in to protect his home in Bavaria, the 480- room Schloss St Emmeram, which is twice the size of Buckingham Palace. They havent...Johannes Baptista de Jesus Maria Louis Miguel Friedrich Bonifazrus...


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encyclopedia articles on: Louis III King of Bavaria  - 20 results

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Louis III , King of Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOUIS III , king of Bavaria 1845 1921, last king of Bavaria (1913 18). He succeeded...but proclaimed himself king in 1913. He was overthrown in the Bavarian revolution of Nov., 1918...
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Otto I , King of Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bavaria 1848 1916, king of Bavaria (1886 1913). Although incurably...1872, he succeeded his brother King Louis II under the regency of his uncle Luitpold (1886 1912...the regent became king as Louis III. ____________________ Copyright...
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Conrad III , Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONRAD III , ruler of the Holy Roman Empire c.1093 1152, German king (1138 52), son of Frederick...son-in-law, Henry the Proud of Bavaria. Conrad deprived Henry of...Crusade (see Crusades ) with Louis VII of France. He left in...
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Bavaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Duke Tassilo III and added Bavaria to his empire...Carolingians Louis the German...and part of the Upper...1002) German king as Henry...tendencies. Bavaria since World War I King Louis III , successor...Feb., 1919) of Eisner led...
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Louis the German
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Lotharingia. After King Lothairs death Lotharingia...between them by the Treaty of Mersen (870). The death (875) of Louis II renewed the war between...sons, Carloman of Bavaria, Louis the Younger...of the West Charles III...
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