Duke Pius August in Bavaria

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Pius August
Duke in Bavaria
1800 Hauber Herzog Pius August in Bayern Historisches Museum Bamberg anagoria.jpg
Born(1786-08-01)1 August 1786
Landshut, Electorate of Bavaria
Died3 August 1837(1837-08-03) (aged 51)
Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria
Spouse
(m. 1807;died 1823)
Issue Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
House Wittelsbach
Father Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria
Mother Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Duke Pius August in Bavaria, [1] full German name: Pius August Herzog in Bayern [1] (born 1 August 1786 in Landshut, Electorate of Bavaria; [1] died 3 August 1837 in Bayreuth, Kingdom of Bavaria [1] ) was a Duke in Bavaria as a member of the Palatine Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen line of the House of Wittelsbach. Pius August was a grandfather of Empress Elisabeth of Austria through his son Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, as well as a great grandfather of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians and an ancestor of the current generations of the Belgian and Italian Royal Families and the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg.

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Early life

Born in Landshut, Pius August was the third child of Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria and his wife, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, sister of King Maximilian I of Bavaria.

Marriage and issue

Pius August married Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, daughter of Prince Louis Marie of Arenberg (1757-1795) and his wife, Marie Adélaïde Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Dame d'Ivry-sur-Seine (1766-1789), on 26 May 1807 in Brussels. [1] Pius August and Amélie Louise had one son: [1]

Later life

In 1815, Pius August became an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He loved to travel.

Ancestry

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References

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