Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria

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Elector of Bavaria human military leader ruler

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Bavarian ruler and military leader whose ambitious foreign policy and shifting alliances significantly shaped the politics of the Holy Roman Empire and wider Europe.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Elector of Bavaria → human → military leader → ruler →
alliedWith	Louis XIV of France →
birthDate	1662-07-11 →
birthPlace	Munich →
burialPlace	Theatinerkirche, Munich →
child	Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor → Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria →
countryOfCitizenship	Electorate of Bavaria →
deathDate	1726-02-26 →
deathPlace	Munich →
familyName	Wittelsbach →
father	Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria →
givenName	Maximilian →
governed	Spanish Netherlands →
memberOf	House of Wittelsbach →
mother	Henriette Adelaide of Savoy →
nobleTitle	Duke → Elector →
notableFor	ambitious foreign policy → expansion of Bavarian power → military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire → role in the War of the Spanish Succession → shifting alliances in European politics →
opposed	Habsburg Monarchy → Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I →
participatedIn	Battle of Vienna → Great Turkish War → War of the Spanish Succession →
patronOf	architecture → arts →
positionHeld	Duke of Bavaria → Elector of Bavaria → Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire → Governor of the Spanish Netherlands →
predecessor	Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria →
reignEnd	1726 →
reignStart	1679 →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
residence	Munich Residenz → Nymphenburg Palace →
soughtTitle	King of Spain → King of the Romans →
spouse	Maria Antonia of Austria → Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska →
successor	Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Blenheim → Battle of Ramillies → Siege of Namur (1692) → War of the Spanish Succession →	commander
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor → Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria → Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria ("Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria") →	father
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria → Henriette Adelaide of Savoy →	child
Maria Antonia of Austria → Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska →	spouse
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria →	childOf
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 ("Charles Albert of Bavaria") →	opposedBy
Governor-General of the Habsburg Netherlands →	positionHeldBy
Henriette Adelaide of Savoy →	regencyFor
Electorate of Bavaria →	ruler
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria →	successor