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Also Known As Maximilian IV Joseph
Born May 27, 1756 • Mannheim
Died October 13, 1825 (aged 69) • Munich • Bavaria
Title / Office king (1806-1825), Bavaria
House / Dynasty House of Wittelsbach
Role In Napoleonic Wars

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Montgelas de Garnerin, detail from an engraving by E.C. Hess, 1816
Maximilian Joseph, count von Montgelas de Garnerin
Bavarian statesman
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Maximilian I
duke of Bavaria
Maximilian II
Maximilian II
king of Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel, engraving by Karl Gustav Amling, 1682
Maximilian II Emanuel
elector of Bavaria
Karl Philipp, Fürst von Wrede
Karl Philipp, prince von Wrede
Bavarian general
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Gilbert Stuart: portrait of John Adams
John Adams
president of United States
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Klemens von Metternich
Klemens von Metternich
Austrian statesman
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Irish statesman
George Canning, painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Evans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Canning
British statesman
Manuel de Godoy
prime minister of Spain
P. W. Botha
state president of South Africa
De Gasperi, 1952
Alcide De Gasperi
prime minister of Italy
Abdülhamid II
Abdülhamid II
Ottoman sultan
Haugwitz, drawing, before 1776; in the Lavater portrait collection
Christian, count von Haugwitz
Prussian minister and diplomat
Francis II
Francis II
Holy Roman emperor

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