Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria
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Duke Ludwig Wilhelm Karl Norbert Theodor Johann in Bavaria (January 17, 1884 Schloss Tegernsee
Tegernsee Abbey
Tegernsee Abbey or the Imperial Abbey of Tegernsee is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria. Both the abbey and the town that grew up around are named after the Tegernsee, the lake on the shores of which they are located...

 – November 5, 1968 Wildbad Kreuth) was a Bavarian noble.

Life

Ludwig Wilhelm was the eldest son of Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria
Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria
Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria was a member of the House of Wittelsbach and a well-known ophthalmologist. He was the brother of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria.-Life:...

 and his second wife Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal
Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal
Infanta Maria José of Portugal , sometimes known in English as Maria Josepha, was a Portuguese infanta, later Duchess in Bavaria by marriage...

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He married on March 19, 1917 in Kreuth
Kreuth
Kreuth is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany.-Schloss Ringberg:The castle Ringberg was owned by the dukes of Bavaria and was donated to the Max Planck Society in 1973.-Wildbad Kreuth:...

 with Princess Eleonore Anna Lucie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, daughter of Prince Franz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Julia Cavalcanti d'Albuquerque de Villeneuve.

When his wife died on February 20, 1965 he adopted the grandson of his sister Marie Gabrielle
Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria
-Family:Her parents were Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria, kinsman to the Kings of Bavaria and world renowned ophthalmologist, and his second wife, Princess Maria José of Bragança, a daughter of King Miguel I, exiled monarch of Portugal...

, Max Emanuel
Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
Max-Emanuel Ludwig Maria Herzog in Bayern, sometimes styled Prince Max of Bavaria, Duke in Bavaria, born 21 January 1937 as son of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, is the heir presumptive to both the headship of the former Bavarian Royal House and the Jacobite Succession...

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Ludwig Wilhelm died on November 5, 1968 in Wildbad Kreuth.

Ancestry

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