After him all kings and emperors relied on the lands of their own family ( Hausmacht ): Louis IV of Wittelsbach ( king 1314, emperor 1328 – 47 ) relied on his lands in Bavaria ; Charles IV of Luxembourg, the grandson of Henry VII, drew strength from his own lands in Bohemia.

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

A representative of the House of Wittelsbach became elected for a short period of time, but in 1745, Maria Theresa's husband, Francis I of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, became King ; all of his successors were also from the same family.

Divisions within the empire also had an impact on the raising of troops in 1733, as Charles-Albert of Bavaria, who harbored ambitions to become the next Holy Roman Emperor, signed a secret agreement with France in November 1733, and tried, with limited success, to dissuade other rulers within the empire from the Wittelsbach family from providing troops to the emperor under their treaty obligations.

In continuance of the conflict of the House of Wittelsbach with the House of Luxemburg, the Wittelsbach family returned to power in the Holy Roman Empire in 1400 with King Rupert of Germany, a great-grandnephew of Louis.

The Wittelsbach family was the ruling dynasty of the German territories of Bavaria from 1180 to 1918 and of the Electorate of the Palatinate from 1214 until 1805 ; in 1815 the latter territory was partly incorporated as Rhine Palatinate into Bavaria, which was elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon in 1806.

* Amberg, Germany passes to the Wittelsbach family.

Albert was married in Munich on 2 October 1900 to Duchess Elisabeth Gabrielle Valérie Marie in Bavaria, a Wittelsbach princess whom he had met at a family funeral.

Elisabeth was an emotionally complex woman, and perhaps due to the melancholy and eccentricity that was considered a given characteristic of her Wittelsbach lineage ( the best-known member of the family being her favorite cousin, the eccentric Ludwig II of Bavaria ), she was interested in the treatment of the mentally ill.

The fourth quarter is the coat of arms of the Wittelsbach family.

The count palatine in Bavaria, an office held by the family of Wittelsbach, became duke of this land, the lower comital title being then merged into the higher ducal one.

In 1654 his Wittelsbach family would return to power in Sweden.

It was the ancestral castle of the Wittelsbach family, who were rulers of Bavaria for thousand years.

In 1329 the town and the entire Upper Palatinate fell to a branch line of the Wittelsbach family and was no longer part of the duchy of Bavaria.

The panther is the symbol of the Wittelsbach family, and it represents the area of the former districts Vilshofen and Griesbach.

The city of Landshut was founded in 1204 by the ruling Wittelsbach family of Bavaria.

The counts were ancestors of the Wittelsbach family, who in 1180 became rulers of Bavaria.

The Sulzbach branch of the Wittelsbach family inherited the Duchy of Bavaria.

Montgelas therefore went to Zweibrücken, where he was helped by his brother Illuminati to find employment at the Court of the Duke, the head of a branch of the Wittelsbach family.

The palaces were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family.

She belonged to the ancient and well-established Merovingian Wittelsbach family, descended from Charlemagne.

It was one of the favourite monasteries of the Wittelsbach family.

Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.

Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King.

* June 21 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and rival to Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, is assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach, because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.

The region is sometimes called the cradle of Bavaria, since the castle of Wittelsbach was located close to the present city of Aichach.

The territory is also known as Wittelsbacher Land, due to the castle of Wittelsbach near Aichach.

Today, Nymphenburg is open to the public, but also continues to be a home and chancery for the head of the house of Wittelsbach, currently Franz, Duke of Bavaria.

To Jacobites, who trace the line of legitimate British monarchy down through the legal heirs of James II of England, the head of the house of Wittelsbach is the legitimate heir of the Stuart claims to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; this claim is not being actively pursued.

: In spite of the close relationship of the Wittelsbach to France it is the second smallest section with works for example of Claude Lorrain (" The Expulsion of Hagar "), Nicolas Poussin (" Midas and Bacchus "), François Boucher (" Madame de Pompadour ") (" Reclining Girl "), Nicolas Lancret (" The Bird Cage "), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (" Woman Cleaning Turnips "), Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (" Mademoiselle Ferrand Meditating on Newton "), Claude Joseph Vernet (" Eastern Harbour at Dawn ") and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (" Girl with Dog ").

The family of the princes Lubomirski is related to almost all the dynasties ruling in Europe, for example, with the Bourbon, Capetiens, Liudolfing, Wittelsbach, Hohenzollern, Rurykowicz dynasties.

Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza ( born Luís Gastão Maria José Pio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orléans e Bragança e Wittelsbach on 6 June 1938 ) is one of the two claimants to the defunct Brazilian throne, and head of the Vassouras branch of the Brazilian Imperial House.

When Otto of Bavaria became the first King of Greece in 1832 when the great European powers forced the militarily chastened Ottoman Empire to formally accept its independence, he brought with him from Bavaria some of his ancestral Wittelsbach dynasty crown jewels: a crown, orb and sceptre which he declared to be the Crown Jewels of Greece.

European architects Kayser and Hofmann worked on several other revival castles, including Neuschwanstein Castle – built by Maximilian's Wittelsbach cousin Ludwig II of Bavaria twenty years after Chapultepec's renovation.

The House of Luxembourg was a late medieval European royal family and a Czech royal dynasty, which between 1308 and 1437 ruled the Holy Roman Empire, twice interrupted by the rivaling House of Wittelsbach.

On 3 February 1859 in Bari, Francis married princess Duchess Maria Sophia in Bavaria, of the royal Bavarian house of Wittelsbach ( a younger sister of Empress Elisabeth " Sissi " of Austria ).

* The collection of the royal regalia and treasures of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty, housed in the Residenz Palace in Munich, Germany.

Queen Elizabeth was in fact better connected to mighty German rulers than her husband: a descendant of earlier kings, for example Emperor Henry IV, she was also a niece of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria, Austria's important neighbor.

Louis IV ( German: Ludwig ) ( 1 April 1282, Munich – 11 October 1347 ), called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was the King of Germany ( King of the Romans ) from 1314, the King of Italy from 1327 and the Holy Roman Emperor from 1328.

As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918.

He even mentioned his ambition for the German crown, which had been held by the House of Wittelsbach in the past.

He was elected German king at Frankfurt on January 30, 1349 by four of the electors, who were partisans of the house of Wittelsbach and opponents of Charles of Luxemburg, afterwards the Emperor Charles IV.

Though Walram's younger brother Count Gerhard V had sided with German king Adolf of Nassau against his rival Albert I of Habsburg, he managed to retain his territories after Adolf of Nassau lost the Battle of Göllheim in 1298, and in 1314 supported the coronation of Louis IV of Wittelsbach at the nearby City of Aachen, once more against the will of the Cologne bishop.

After Otto VIII of Wittelsbach had assassinated the German king Philip of Swabia in 1208, Rapoto's son Count Rapoto II even held the office of a Count Palatine of Bavaria.

In Brühl he worked for Cologne ’ s Archbishop and German Empire Prince Elector Clemens August von Wittelsbach.