Rupprecht (May 18, 1869 – August 2, 1955), full name Rupprecht. Maria. Lyutpod. Rupprecht Maria Luitpold Ferdinand, Bavaria****, was the head of the Bavarian royal family after 1921, known as the Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia, and the Count of the Rhine (Herzog von Bayern, Franken und in Schwaben, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein). He was also the heir to the English throne supported by most of the Jacolites, and was known by the Jacoites as King Robert I of England and King Robert IV of Scotland.

Ruprecht was the eldest son of Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria, and Maria Theresia, Princess of Modena and Jacobite heir to the English throne. Born in Munich in 1869. In 1900, Ruprecht married Maria Gabriella, daughter of Duke Carl Theodor of Bavaria (and niece of Princess Sissi), who died in 1912. At the outbreak of World War I, Ruprecht was commander-in-chief of the German Sixth Front in Lorraine. On August 14, 1914, he successfully resisted the French offensive and won the Battle of Lorraine, crushing the French plan No. 17 to recover the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in one fell swoop. Rupprecht launched a counteroffensive the following month, but failed to break through the French front, and remained at a stalemate on the Western Front until the end of the war. In 1916, Ruprecht was awarded the rank of Field Marshal of Germany. Ruprecht was considered the best army commander among the members of the royal family during World War I.

In 1918, the Bavarian monarchy was overthrown, and Ruprecht lost the opportunity to succeed to the throne. On April 7, 1921, Ruprecht married Antoinette, the fourth daughter of Archduke Guillaume IV of Luxembourg. On October 18 of the same year, his husband Ludwig III died, and he became the head of the Bavarian royal family, and the royalists called him King Ruprecht I of Bavaria. In 1939, he was forced into exile in Italy for his opposition to the Nazi regime, and soon settled in Savar, Hungary. In October 1944, the Germans occupied Hungary and his wife and children were arrested and imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. In 1945 he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was released by the U.S. military.

Ruprecht died on 2 August 1955 at the age of 86 in Leutztetenberg, near Starlenberg, Bavaria, and his second son Albrecht inherited all his titles.

children

Ruprecht had three sons and a daughter with his first wife, Maria Gabriella, the Bavarian magistrate, as well as a stillborn daughter:

The eldest son, Luitpold Maximilian Ludwig Karl (8 May 1901 – 27 August 1914), suffered from polio.

The eldest daughter, Irmingard Maria Therese José Cä cilia Adelheid Michaela Antonia Adelgunde (1902-1903), suffered from diphtheria.

Second son, Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael (1905-1996), his heir.

The third son, Rudolf Friedrich Rupprecht (1909-1912), suffered from diabetes.

Ruprecht had a son and five daughters with his second wife, Princess Antoinette of Luxembourg:

The fourth son, Heinrich Franz Wilhelm (1922-1958), married Anne-Marie de Lystrac in 1951 and had no heirs.

The second daughter, Irmingard Marie Josepha (b. 1923), married Ludwig, the eldest son of her cousin and fifth brother Ruprecht, in 1950.

The third daughter, Editha Marie Gabrielle Anna (b. 1924), married the Italian Tito Brunetti in 1946 and the Hungarian Gustav Schimert in 1959.

The fourth daughter, Hilda Hildegard Marie Gabriele (1926 – 2002), married Peruvian Juan Bradstock Edgart Lockett de Loayza in 1949.

Fifth daughter Gabriela (Gabriele Adelgunde Marie Theresia Antonia, b. 1927), married in 1953 with CARL Emanuel Ludwig Petrus Eleonore Alexander Rudolf Engelbert Benno, Herzog von Croÿ Marriage.

The sixth daughter, Sophie Marie Therese (b. 1935), married Jean, the twelfth Duke of Arenberg, in 1955.