Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, ( 1662-1726 ) by Joseph Vivien.

It was not an unnatural decision: his cousin, Louis of Baden, was already a leading general in the Imperial army, as was a more distant cousin, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Austria itself was now facing the direct threat of invasion from across the border in Bavaria where the state's Elector, Maximilian Emanuel, had declared for the Bourbons in August the previous year.

* 1662 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1726 )

In 1722, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to whom Albinoni had dedicated a set of twelve concertos, invited him to direct two of his operas in Munich.

* July 11 – Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( d. 1726 )

* February 26 – Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria ( b. 1662 )

* Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 1662 – 1726 )

James Louis Sobieski ’ s own mother, Marie Casimire, favored her son-in-law, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Clemens August ( Clementus Augustus ) was born in Brussels, the son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska and the grandson of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

Maximilian II ( July 11, 1662 – February 26, 1726 ), also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a ' Kurfürst of the Holy Roman Empire.

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

The war was finally ended in 1713 in the Treaty of Utrecht which restored Maximilian Emanuel.

Back in Bavaria, Maximilian Emanuel put much energy on his building projects to balance the failure of his political ambitions.

Maximilian Emanuel then supported the new wars of the Habsburg against the Turks with Bavarian auxiliary forces ( 1717 ).

Maximilian Emanuel is buried in the crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich.

During his entire reign Maximilian II Emanuel patronized the arts.

Villars and Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, moved their army to intercept this force, ordering another French force of 7, 000 men under d ' Usson near Dillingen to attack from the rear.

However, Villars and Maximilian Emanuel arrived just in time, falling upon the Imperial army before it could adjust its positions.

The Emperor, however, favoured Joseph Clement, the brother of Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

Duke Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria, Prince of Asturias ( 28 October 1692 – 6 February 1699 ) was the son of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 1679 – 1705, 1714 – 1726 ) and his first wife, Maria Antonia of Austria, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, maternal granddaughter of King Felipe IV of Spain.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

He collected numerous Greek and Latin manuscripts in his function as librarian of the imperial library that was founded by Maximilian.

Eugène's son Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married into the Russian Imperial family, was granted the style of Imperial Highness and founded the Russian line of the Beauharnais family, while Eugene ` s daughter Joséphine, married King Oscar I of Sweden, the son of Napoléon's one-time fiancée, Désirée Clary.

Maximilian Kolbe founded the monthly periodical Rycerz Niepokalanej in 1922, and in 1927 founded a Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanow, which became a major publishing centre.

The university's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn ( English: Academy of the Prince-elector of Cologne ) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels, the prince-elector of Cologne.

Carmel at Naples, founded by his mother for the good of his soul ; and here in 1847 Maximilian, crown prince of Bavaria, erected a marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen to his memory.

He was the grandson of Maximilien ( Maximilian ) Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools.

In 1757 he fought in Bohemia and Saxony under Field Marshal Maximilian Ulysses Browne and became a Generalfeldwachtmeister ( major-general of cavalry ) as well as a knight of the newly founded Maria Theresa Military Order.

* Royal Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Immaculate Conception, founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726

The first floor of the former court stables houses a collection of Nymphenburg porcelain, the factory which, also located in the palace complex, was founded by Maximilian III Joseph.

Munich's first academic institution, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, was founded in 1759 by Maximilian III.

* The Bavarian National Museum is founded by King Maximilian II of Bavaria.

During the 1470s and 1480s, duke Sigismund had succeeded in acquiring step by step the high justice over most of the communes of the Zehngerichtebund (" League of the Ten Jurisdictions " in the Prättigau, the youngest of the Three Leagues that had sprung up in the Grisons, having been founded only in 1436 ), and Maximilian continued this expansionist strategy.

This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the 8th century, which became a Metropolitan Archdiocese with the name of München und Freising in 1818, subsequent to the Concordat between Pius VII and King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria ( 5 June 1817 ).

The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (, also known as Munich Academy ) was founded 1808 by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria in Munich as the " Royal Academy of Fine Arts " and is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany.

The Academy was founded in 1759 by Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria.

The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception was founded by Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in 1726 to provide for a means of honouring the nobility and recognizing distinguished civil and military service.

Niepokalanów ( City of the Immaculate Mother of God ) is a Roman Catholic religious community in Teresin ( near Warsaw ), Poland founded in 1927 by Friar Minor Conventual Friar Maximilian Kolbe, who was later canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church.

* Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1666 – 1726 ), field marshal in the Imperial Army

* Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria ( 11 July 1662 – 26 February 1726 ); married Maria Antonia of Austria and had issue ; married Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska and had issue.

Maximilian's grandson Maximilian II Emanuel ( 1679 – 1726 ) purchased a large number of Dutch and Flemish paintings when he was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.