Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria

Princess Mathilde Ludovika
Countess of Trani
Born (1843-09-30)30 September 1843
Possenhofen, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died 18 June 1925(1925-06-18) (aged 81)
Munich, Germany
Spouse Prince Louis, Count of Trani
Issue Maria Teresa, Princess of Hohenzollern
House Wittelsbach
Father Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria
Mother Princess Ludovika of Bavaria
Religion Roman Catholic

Mathilde Ludovika, Duchess in Bavaria (30 September 1843 – 18 June 1925) was the fourth daughter of Maximilian, Duke in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. Her mother was the youngest daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria by his second wife Margravine Karoline of Baden.

Early life

Born and raised at Possenhofen Castle, Mathilde was a younger sister of (among others) Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria, Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria and Duchess Marie Sophie in Bavaria. She was an older sister of (among others) Duchess Sophie in Bavaria.

Marriage and family

On 5 June 1861, Mathilde married Lodovico, Count of Trani. He was heir presumptive to his older half-brother Francis II of the Two Sicilies. Francis was married to her older sister Marie Sophie. The bride was seventeen years old and the groom was twenty-two. They had one child, a daughter:

Allegedly, during the early years of her marriage, Mathilde had an affair with the Spanish diplomat Salvador Bermúdez de Castro, Duke of Ripalda and Santa Lucía, with whom she had a daughter at the Villa Farnesina in Rome:[1]

Two Sicilies Revolution

However, the Two Sicilies were conquered by the Expedition of the Thousand under Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1861. Garibaldi served the Kingdom of Sardinia which was in the process of Italian unification.

Lodovico was still the heir of Francis as head of a deposed Royal House. He retained this position for the rest of his life but predeceased Francis on 8 June 1886. Francis was eventually succeeded by their younger brother Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta. Mathilde survived her husband by thirty-nine years but never remarried.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ La Villa Farnesina in: www.lne.es (in Spanish) [retrieved 04 February 2016]

Sources

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