Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria

Duchess Ludovica Mathilde in Bavaria ( born September 30, 1843 in Possenhofen, † June 18, 1925 in Munich) was from the line of the Dukes of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family and was by marriage Princess of Bourbon - Sicily.

Life

Mathilde was born in 1843 as the fourth daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria ( 1808-1888 ) and his wife Ludovica of Bavaria ( 1808-1892 ) in Possenhofen. In Possenhofen on Lake Starnberg and Munich Mathilde spent much of her childhood. Of her seven siblings she was probably her next older sister Marie, Queen of the Two Sicilies from 1859, and the next.

On June 5, 1861 Mathilde was married in Munich with Count Ludwig von Trani, who was the younger brother of the King of the Two Sicilies. So it turned out that the first years of marriage Mathilde mostly with her sister Marie spent in Rome, where they had allegedly having an affair with a young officer.

1867 she gave birth to her first and only child, Maria Theresa, called Madi ( 1867-1909 ), later Princess of Hohenzollern. The marriage of the Countess Trani proved to be very unpleasant. Her husband cheated on her and was probably dependent on alcohol so that she preferred it later, quite separate from him. She spent most of the year traveling, was often to be found in Paris, Feldafing and Baden-Baden, usually accompanied by her sisters Marie and Elisabeth of Austria - Hungary.

Mathilde was a pretty woman, like all her sisters, but there. So thin and with such a squeaky voice, that her family often " sparrow " named In 1886, it widowed (her husband probably committed suicide, even though he died, according to other sources, a disease that plagued him for some time ). During the First World War Mathilde lived in Switzerland, later with her older sister Marie in Munich. She survived Marie by half a year and died the last of the Duke Children 1925. Their grave at the Munich Forest Cemetery (partial ) was dissolved in 1977 and re- occupied.