The 1st Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry “Prince Charles of Bavaria” (''Königlich Bayerisches Schwere-Reiter-Regiment „Prinz Karl von Bayern“ Nr. 1'') were a heavy cavalry regiment of the
Royal Bavarian Army
The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1919) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty (''Wehrhoheit'') of Bavaria into that of ...
. The regiment was formed in 1814 as
Garde du Corps to the King of Bavaria. The normal peacetime location of the regiment was
Munich. The regiment fought in the
War of the Sixth Coalition, the
Austro-Prussian War
The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as ("German War"), (; "German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 186 ...
, the
Franco-Prussian War and
World War I. The regiment was disbanded in 1919.
See also
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List of Imperial German cavalry regiments
References
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Regiments of the German Army in World War I
Military units and formations established in 1814
Military units and formations disestablished in 1919
1814 establishments in Bavaria
1919 disestablishments in Germany
Cavalry regiments of the Bavarian Army