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1648

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria 1662-1726

Maximilian II also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements.
He was born in Munich to Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d.1676). His maternal grandparents were Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and Christine of France, daughter of King Henry IV of France.
Artist: Priuilegio
Date:1662
Size 13.5 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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1576

Paul von Rusdorf c. 1385 – 1441

Paul von Rusdorf was the 29th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1422 to 1441. The Treaty of Melno was one of von Rusdorf’s first acts; it brought stability to the Order and its relations, but fighting resumed in 1431 with the Polish-Teutonic War. Johannes von Baysen was one of his ambassadors
Artist:
Date:1436
Size 15 x 25 cms
Price £28.00

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2841

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg 1655-1720

Eleonore was born in Düsseldorf, Holy Roman Empire, on the night of 6 January 1655. She was the oldest of 17 children born from Philip William, Count Palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich-Berg and his second wife, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. On her father’s side her grandparents were Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg and his first wife, Magdalene of Bavaria. On her mother’s side, her grandparents were George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Sophia Eleonore of Saxony.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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123

Karl Philipp von Wrede 1767-1838

Karl Philipp Josef, Prince von Wrede was a Bavarian field marshal. He was an ally of Napoleonic France until he negotiated the Treaty of Ried with Austria in 1813. Thereafter Bavaria joined the coalition.
Size 17 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

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493

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse 1749-1803

Wilhelm Heinse, German author, was born at Langewiesen in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. After attending grammar school at Schleusingen he studied law at Jena and Erfurt. In Erfurt he became acquainted with Wieland and through him with “Father” Gleim who in 1772 procured him the post of tutor in a family at Quedlinburg
Size 12.5 x 18.5 cms
Price £28.00

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