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Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria

Ferdinand Maria Innocenz of Bavaria
Portrait by Joseph Vivien, c. 1724
Born(1699-08-05)5 August 1699
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire
Died9 December 1738(1738-12-09) (aged 39)
Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
Burial
Theatine Church, Munich
Spouse
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(m. 1719)​
Issue
Detail
HouseWittelsbach
FatherMaximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
MotherTherese Kunigunde Sobieska

Ferdinand Maria Innocenz Michael Joseph of Bavaria (5 August 1699 in Brussels – 9 December 1738 in Munich) was a Bavarian prince and an Imperial Field marshal.

Life

Ferdinand Maria Innocent was a son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (1662-1726) from his marriage to Therese Kunigunde Sobieska (1676-1730), a daughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

He served as a general in the imperial army. In 1738, he was promoted to Field marshal and imperial Feldzeugmeister.[1]

He died in 1738 and was buried in the Theatine Church in Munich.

Marriage and issue

Ferdinand Maria Innocent married on 5 February 1719 in Zákupy to Maria Anna Carolina, a daughter of Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg. He had the following children:

  • Maximilian Francis Joseph (11 April 1720 – 12 December 1738) died aged 18 unmarried with no issue.
  • Clement Francis de Paula (1722–1770)
married in 1742 Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Sulzbach (1722–1790)
  • Therese Emmanuel (22 July 1723 – 27 March 1743) died aged 19 unmarried.

Ferdinand also had a son from his extra-marital affaire with Countess Marie Adelaide Fortunata Spaur (1694–1781):

  • Joseph Ferdinand (1718–1805), general of the regiment "Count of Salern", married:
    1. in 1753 to Countess Marie Mechthildis of Törring (1734–1764)
    2. in 1766 to Countess Josepha of La Rosee (d. 1772)

References

  • Johannes Erichsen and Katharina Heinemann (Hrsg.): Die Schlacht von Höchstädt. Brennpunkt Europas 1704, Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2004, ISBN 3-7995-0214-9

Footnotes

  1. ^ Kunstwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in München, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, München and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden kunst, Prestel Verlag, 1963, p. 171
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Maria_Innocenz_of_Bavaria