Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (1922–1958)

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria

Heinrich held by his older Half-brother, Prince Albrecht, in 1922
Spouse Anne Marie de Lustrac
House House of Wittelsbach
Father Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
Mother Princess Antonia of Luxembourg
Born 28 March 1922
Schloss Hohenburg near Lenggries, Bavaria
Died 14 February 1958 (aged 35)
car crash in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Burial Andechs Abbey cemetery, Bavaria

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (German: Heinrich Franz Wilhelm Prinz von Bayern) (28 March 1922 – 14 February 1958) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach.

Prince Heinrich was born at Schloss Hohenburg in Bavaria and was the eldest son from the second marriage of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and his wife Princess Antonia of Luxembourg. On 31 July 1951 Prince Heinrich married Anne Marie de Lustrac, the daughter of Baron Jean de Lustrac and his wife Helen Reid. The ceremony took place in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on the Basque coast in France. The couple did not have any children together.

The prince was a Knight of the Order of Saint Hubert. He died in a car accident in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina in the Andes on 14 February 1958. He is buried at the Andechs Abbey church in Bavaria. Prince Heinrich's widow, Anne Marie de Lustrac, died also in a car crash in Milan, Italy on 16 August 1999.

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