Duchess Sophie in Bavaria (german: Sophie Adelheid Ludovika Maria Herzogin in Bayern; 22 February 1875 in Possenhofen,

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– 4 September 1957 in Kreuth, Germany).''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' XVI. "Toerring-Jettenbach". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2001, pp. 4, 375-378. (German) .

Biography

Family

Her parents were Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, head of a

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of the Bavarian royal family, and an

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of recognized reputation, and his second wife, the Infanta Maria José of Braganza, third daughter of King Miguel I, exiled monarch of Portugal. Her paternal aunt was Empress Elisabeth of Austria (''Sissi''). She was also the sister of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, consort of

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and of Marie Gabrielle, wife of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, later the head of the

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. She was named after her father's first wife,

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, the mother of her half-sister Amalie.

Marriage and issue

On 26 July 1898 in Bavaria's capital,

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, Sophie Adelheid married Count Hans Veit of Toerring-Jettenbach (

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, 7 April 1862 – Munich, 29 October 1929), son of Count Clemens Maria Anton zu Toerring-Jettenbach (1826-1891) and his wife, Countess Franziska von Paumgarten (1834-1894). He was head of the mediatized House of Toerring-Jettenbach. They had three children, nine grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and eighteen great-great-grandchildren: *Count Carl Theodor of Toerring-Jettenbach (22 September 1900 – 14 May 1967) he married Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark on 10 January 1934. They have two children, six grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

Ancestry

References

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