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King of Bavaria from 1864, when he succeeded
his father Maximilian II. He supported
Austria during the Austro-Prussian War 1866,
but brought Bavaria into the Franco-Prussian
War as Prussia's ally, and in 1871 offered
the German crown to the king of Prussia. He
was the composer Wagner's patron, and built
the Bayreuth theatre for him. Declared insane
1886, he drowned himself soon after.