This article is about the first king of Bavaria. For the seventeenth century Elector Maximilian I, see Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
Maximilian I Joseph
Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1822
King of Bavaria
Reign
1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825
Successor
Ludwig I
Elector of Bavaria
Reign
16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806
Predecessor
Charles Theodore
Count Palatine of the Rhine
Reign
16 February 1799 – 1 January 1806
Predecessor
Charles Theodore
Duke of Zweibrücken
Reign
1 April 1795 – 1 January 1806
Predecessor
Charles II August
Born
(1756-05-28)28 May 1756 Schwetzingen, County Palatine of Zweibrücken
Died
13 October 1825(1825-10-13) (aged 69) Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Burial
Theatinerkirche, Munich
Spouse
Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt
(m. 1785; died 1796)
Caroline of Baden
(m. 1797)
Issue
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria
Augusta, Duchess of Leuchtenberg
Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria
Prince Karl Theodor
Elisabeth Ludovika, Queen of Prussia
Amalie Auguste, Queen of Saxony
Sophie, Archduchess of Austria
Maria Anna, Queen of Saxony
Ludovika, Duchess in Bavaria
Princess Maximiliana
Names
Maximilian Maria Michael John Baptist Francis of Paola Joseph Casper Ignatius Nepomucene
German: Maximilian Maria Michael Johann Baptist Franz von Paula Joseph Caspar Ignatius Nepomuk
House
Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Father
Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Mother
Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Signature
Maximilian I Joseph (German: Maximilian I. Joseph; 27 May 1756 – 13 October 1825) was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria (as Maximilian IV Joseph) from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria (as Maximilian I Joseph) from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
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