page_title: St. Michael's Church, Munich
section_title: Burial places
hierarchical_section_title: St. Michael's Church, Munich / Burial places
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grabdenkmal für Herzog von Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beauharnais, von Bertel Thorvaldsen in St. Michael, München. Die beiden Engel stammen von seinem Schüler Ernst Mayer. English: Tomb of Eugène de Beauharnais with Auguste, sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen, St. Michael (München)
context_page_description: St. Michael's is a Jesuit church in Munich, southern Germany, the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture.
context_section_description: The church crypt contains the tomb of Eugène de Beauharnais. A monument was erected by Bertel Thorwaldsen in 1830 in the church. Eugène was the son of Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's wife and her first husband, general Alexandre de Beauharnais. He married a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria in 1806 and was created Duke of Leuchtenberg in 1817. In the right transept, there is a cross monument of Giovanni da Bologna.
  The crypt contains among others the tombs of these members of the Wittelsbach dynasty:
  William V, Duke of Bavaria, (reg. 1579–1597)
  Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, (reg. 1597–1651)
  Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken
  King Ludwig II of Bavaria, (reg. 1864–1886)
  King Otto of Bavaria, (reg. 1886–1913), Ludwig's younger brother
  Prince Leopold of Bavaria, titular King of Greece.
  Archduchess Gisela of Austria, eldest surviving child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth
caption: Monument to Eugène de Beauharnais by Bertel Thorwaldsen.
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