Caroline of Baden was born on 13 July 1776 as the daughter of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden, and his wife Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was one of a set of twins – her sister Amalie remained unmarried. Her parents would have a total of eight children, of which seven survived to adulthood. Her [read more]
Princess Ludovika of Bavaria was born on 30 August 1808 in the Munich Residenz as the daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife, Caroline of Baden. She was the half-sister of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Her birth was complicated, and it had already not been an easy pregnancy for [read more]
The Kingdom of Bavaria was founded in 1805 when the Peace of Pressburg allowed the then Elector Maximilian to raise Bavaria to the status of a Kingdom. The preceding Electorate of Bavaria was an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623. Maximilian proclaimed himself King on 1 January 1806, and he also [read more]
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