Prince Konrad of Bavaria (german: Konrad Luitpold Franz Joseph Maria Prinz von Bayern; 22 November 1883 – 6 September 1969) was a member of the

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

n Royal House of

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Early life

Konrad was born in

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. He was the youngest child of

Prince Leopold of Bavaria Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Leopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf; 9 February 1846 – 28 September 1930) was born in Munich, the son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821–1912) and his wife Archduchess Augusta of Austria (1825–1864). H ...

and his wife

Archduchess Gisela of Austria Archduchess Gisela Louise Marie of Austria (12 July 1856 – 27 July 1932) was the second daughter and eldest surviving child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Although christened ''Gisella'', she only ever wro ...

. During

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, like his older brother Georg, Konrad served in the Bavarian army mainly on the Eastern Front as a commander of the 2nd Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry "Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria" Konrad reached the rank of Major and resigned from the military on 6 February 1919.

Marriage

On 8 January 1921 Prince Konrad married Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa, the daughter of Prince Tomaso of Savoy-Genoa and

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. The wedding took place at the Castello Agliè in

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, Italy. The couple had two children: *

Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria (german: Amalie Isabella Marie Gisela Margarete Prinzessin von Bayern; 15 December 1921 – 28 March 1985) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach. Biography Princess Amalie Isabella of Bavaria ...

(15 December 1921 in

– 28 March 1985 in

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), married on 25 August 1949 in

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, Count Umberto Poletti-Galimberta, Count of Assandri (21 June 1921 in Milan – 18 February 1995 in Milan), son of Luciano Poletti and Adriana Galimberti. They have issue.Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg''. ICC, Paris, 1996. (French). *

Prince Eugen of Bavaria Prince Eugen of Bavaria (german: Eugen Leopold Adelaide Thomas Maria Prinz von Bayern) (16 July 1925 – 1 January 1997) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach. Early life Prince Eugen was born in Munich and was the only son ...

(16 July 1925 in Munich – 1 January 1997 in

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), married Countess Helene of Khevenhüller-Metsch (4 April 1921 in

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– 25 December 2017 in

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), daughter of Count Franz of Khevenhüller-Metsch and Princess Anna of Fürstenberg. They have no issue.

Post World War II

At the end of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

, Prince Konrad was arrested by the French military at

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, brought to

Lindau Lindau (german: Lindau (Bodensee), ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the county (''Landkreis' ...

and temporarily interned in the hotel ''Bayerischer Hof'', together with among others, the German Crown Prince Wilhelm and the former Nazi diplomat Hans Georg von Mackensen. Princess Bona who worked during the war as a nurse, stayed afterwards with her relatives in Savoy, prohibited from entering Germany, she was not reunited with her family until 1947. In the later years Prince Konrad worked on the Board of German auto-maker NSU.

Death

Prince Konrad of Bavaria died on 6 September 1969 at

in the

Oberallgäu Oberallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu, the Austrian states Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the district of Lindau, and the state ...

region of Bavaria. He is buried at the Andechs Abbey cemetery in Bavaria.

Honours

He received the following orders and decorations:
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Ancestry

References

Sources

*Schad, Martha,''Kaiserin Elisabeth und ihre Töchter.'' München, Langen Müller, 1998 {{DEFAULTSORT:Konrad Of Bavaria, Prince Princes of Bavaria House of Wittelsbach 1883 births 1969 deaths People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Members of the Bavarian Reichsrat Military personnel of Bavaria Burials at Andechs Abbey Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914) Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary Grand Crosses of the Order of Christ (Portugal) Knights of the Order of Montesa Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order