Marriage
On 25 June 1979 Prince Luitpold married Katrin Beatrix Wiegand, the daughter of Gerd Wiegand and his wife Ellen Schumacher. The civil wedding took place at Starnberg and the religious ceremony followed a day later at the Andechs Abbey in Andechs, Bavaria. Initially the union was considered morganatic, but on 3 March 1999, the marriage was decreed to be dynastic in accordance with the Bavarian house laws. The couple had five children:
- Princess Augusta of Bavaria (b. 1979) who is married to Prince Ferdinand of Lippe-Weissenfeld.
- Princess Alice of Bavaria (b. 1981) who is married to Prince Lukas of Auersperg.
- Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (b. 1982)
- Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (b. 1986)
- Prince Karl of Bavaria (b. 1987)
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