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  1. King of Bavaria from 1864, when he succeeded
  2. his father Maximilian II. He supported
  3. Austria during the Austro-Prussian War 1866,
  4. but brought Bavaria into the Franco-Prussian
  5. War as Prussia's ally, and in 1871 offered
  6. the German crown to the king of Prussia. He
  7. was the composer Wagner's patron, and built
  8. the Bayreuth theatre for him. Declared insane
  9. 1886, he drowned himself soon after.
  10.