page_title: List of Bavarian consorts
section_title: Kingdom of Bavaria
hierarchical_section_title: List of Bavarian consorts / Kingdom of Bavaria
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La couronne des Reines de Bavière, par Marie-Étienne Nitot (1750-1809), joaillier, Jean-Baptiste Leblond et Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764 - 1843), orfèvres. Paris, 1806-1807, modifiée en 1867. Schatzkammer, Residenz, Munich, Bavière, Allemagne.English: The crown of the Queens of Bavaria, by Marie-Étienne Nitot (1750-1809), jeweler, Jean-Baptiste Leblond and Martin-Guillaume Biennais (1764 - 1843), goldsmiths. Paris, 1806-1807, altered 1867. Schatzkammer, Residenz, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
context_page_description: There have been three kinds of Bavarian consorts in history, Duchesses, Electresses and Queens. Most consorts listed are Duchesses. The first ever consort of Bavaria was Waldrada in the 6th century. The final consort was Maria Theresia of Austria-Este in 1913.
  The longest serving House was the Wittelsbach Dynasty, who played a major role in Bavarian History. During the medieval period under the Wittelsbach Dynasty, Bavaria was split into two parts, Upper and Lower Bavaria. This meant that there may have been more than one Duchess of Bavaria at the same time, due to messy inheritance among heirs. Three of the break-away Wittelsbach families were: Landshut, Munich and Ingolstadt.
  Since 555 there have been 99 Bavarian consorts: 78 duchesses, 11 queens, 10 electresses and one margravine. The number doesn't add up because Elizabeth of Lorraine and Caroline of Baden, held two titles. There was a few consort that married twice usually their brothers-in-law. It was common for the ruler of Bavaria to have more than one wife. His wives may have died childless or they divorced, because the marriage was childless. Most of the marriages were to make a treaty with the family of the consort.
caption: Crown of queens of Bavaria, Schatzkammer, Residenz, Munich
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