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 is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria.

* 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.

In 1180, Henry the Lion was outlawed ; Saxony was divided, and Bavaria was given to Otto of Wittelsbach.

( Otto founded the Wittelsbach dynasty, which was to rule Bavaria until 1918.

A long civil war began ; Philip was about to win when he was murdered by the Bavarian count palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach in 1208.

In 1180, with the trial of Henry the Lion, Otto I Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria and Munich was handed over to the Bishop of Freising.

) In 1240, Munich was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in 1255, when the Duchy of Bavaria was split in two, Munich became the ducal residence of Upper Bavaria.

The Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria was Leopold I's grandson in the female line, and therefore belonged to the Wittelsbach dynasty rather than the Habsburgs.

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.

Sigismund of Bavaria ( 26 July 1439 – 1 February 1501 ) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

Louis the Roman () ( May 7, 1328 – May 17, 1365 ) was the eldest son of Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian by his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainault, and a member of the House of Wittelsbach.

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.

Wenceslaus was married twice, first to Joanna of Bavaria, a scion of the Wittelsbach dynasty, on 29 September 1370.

Berthold, Margrave in Bavaria ( died 980 ), was the ancestor of Otto I, Count of Scheyern ( died 1072 ), whose 3rd son Otto II, Count of Scheyern acquired the castle of Wittelsbach ( near Aichach ).

Wittelsbach Coat of Arms: With the Palatinate the Wittelsbach acquired also the lion as heraldic symbol, with the county of Bogen the white and blue coloured lozenge flag was acquired in 1240

Tyrol was lost for the Wittelsbach with the death of duke Meinhard and the following Peace of Schärding when Tyrol was finally renounced to the Habsburgs in 1369.

The ruling Wittelsbach Duke became Maximilian I became King of Bavaria.

From 1583 to 1761, all ruling archbishops came from the Wittelsbach dynasty.

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.

By the time Maximilian I of Bavaria died he was ruling a larger and richer state than any previous individual Wittelsbach Prince.

( Wittelsbach's heirs, the Wittelsbach dynasty, would rule Bavaria until 1918.

* 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Rudolf I this way became the ancestor of the older ( Palatinate ) line of the Wittelsbach dynasty, which returned to power also in Bavaria in 1777 after the extinction of the younger ( Bavarian ) line, the descendants of Louis IV.

Clemens August of Bavaria () ( 17 August 1700 – 6 February 1761 ) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria and Archbishop-Elector of Cologne.

In 1724 he created a union of all lines of the Wittelsbach dynasty to increase the influence of his house.

For example, the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son, John the Fearless, and his daughter, Marguerite, to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria, son and daughter of Albert, Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland, prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders, as carried out by Philip's grandson, Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances: the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I, Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia ; their cousin, Isabeau of Bavaria, had married Charles VI of France, and become Queen of France.

1330 she was married to John-Henry ( later became the margrave of Moravia ), who she repudiated with the help of the Tyrolean aristocracy in order to marry Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, a member of the powerful Wittelsbach dynasty.

In 1269, together with Bamberg, the town became subordinate to the Wittelsbach dynasty that ruled Bavaria.

In 1180 the lands east of the Lech river fell to the Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavaria ; the lands on the western bank were acquired about 1315.

The Jacobite claim then passed to members of various continental Catholic dynasties, most recently to Franz, Duke of Bavaria, head of the Wittelsbach dynasty.

To strengthen the union of all lines of the Wittelsbach dynasty Charles III Philip had organized a wedding on January 17, 1742 when his granddaughter Elizabeth Augusta was married to Charles Theodore and her sister Maria Anna to the Bavarian prince Clement.

Nevertheless the Golden Bull caused a conflict between Emperor Charles IV and the Wittelsbach dukes Louis V and Stephen II of Bavaria since also the Bavarian branch of the dynasty got nothing.

* Counts of Wartenberg of the Wittelsbach dynasty, aristocratic title given to the descendants of Ferdinand of Bavaria ( 1550-1608 )

The next day, Eisner declared Bavaria a " free state " – a declaration which overthrew the monarchy of the Wittelsbach dynasty which had ruled for over 700 years, and Eisner became Minister-President of Bavaria.

As the last of the junior branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty which derived from Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and had ruled Bavaria since early 14th century, Maximilian's death led to a succession dispute and the brief War of the Bavarian Succession.

To strengthen the union of all lines of the Wittelsbach dynasty Charles Philip organized a wedding on 17 January 1742 when his granddaughter Elizabeth Auguste was married to Charles Theodore of Palatinate-Sulzbach and her sister Maria Anna to the Bavarian prince Clement.

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