King Ludwig II of Bavaria

This drawing shows a court table with King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the Munich Residenz at the St. George Knights Festival. To the right of the king, facing the beholder, the princes Luitpold and Adalbert. This order is a Bavarian order of knights, named after St. George. and was founded in the 12th century at the time of the Crusades. King Ludwig II drowned in 1886 in the Wuermsee, today Lake Starnberg. After his deposition on June 9, 1886, his uncle Luitpold took over, as Prince Regent, the governmental affairs of the Bavarian kingdom. Due to his activity as builder of many well-known Bavarian castles, King Ludwig II got the nickname Fairy Tale King

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