Duke Max and Duchess Ludovica (née Princess of Bavaria) in Bavaria - Empress Elisabeth's parents

[MarieCharlotte]

I just came across another painting by August von Heckel showing Ludovica as a child with her parents and sisters in Bad Kreuth. Maybe someone possesses "Bayerns Königshaus" or "Bayerns Königinnen" by Martha Schad and is able to scan it. Sorry, I'm too busy at the moment.

[MarieCharlotte]

Max I. Joseph and Caroline with Ludovica, Sophie and Marie (red dresses), Elisabeth and Amalie (blue dresses).

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

This painting is sooo lovely!!!!! In this days the families were soooo big, she also had a lot
of children!!

[MarieCharlotte]

A family of many girls.

Caroline also gave birth to two sons, a still born child in 1799 and a little boy called Maximilian Joseph Karl Friedrich in 1800 who died at the age of 3.

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes. Caroline also cared for the baby boy that was her stepson. They had a good relationship unlike with Ludwig I.

[MarieCharlotte]

Yes. Caroline also cared for the baby boy that was her stepson. They had a good relationship unlike with Ludwig I.

You mean Carl Theodor, Maximilian's son by his first wife Auguste? Yes, he was only two years old when his father remarried.

[Eric_Lowe]

Indeed. They did get along fine. However there is no mention about his relationships with his siblings and half-siblings (Ludovika included).

[Rani]

[MarieCharlotte]

Indeed. They did get along fine. However there is no mention about his relationships with his siblings and half-siblings (Ludovika included).

Well, Karl Theodor was Ludovica's favourite brother (she had the choise between him and Ludwig) and she also made him godfather of her son Carl Theodor.

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Sissi and her sisters look more than Maximilian, in his images as a young man, he looks more
than them

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

I think that he wasn't a common man. In fact many Wittelsbachs had strange behaviours

[Eric_Lowe]

Indeed. It runs in the family. I think Carl Theodor, Sisi's brother was almost "normal".

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Many Wittelsbachs were even farer becoming crazy, is a pity. Sissi knew that perfectly being
worried all her life for her mental health and blaming to the Wittelsbach blood for it

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

How was the relationship of the Empress Sissi with his father the last years of his life? I've
heard that Sissi had a bad relationship with him and that she refused to go to his burial saying
that her health didn't let her to go

[Eric_Lowe]

Perhaps. I know the other sisters did attend the burial.