Marriage
On 17 October 1955 Rasso married Archduchess Theresa of Austria, the daughter of Archduke Theodor Salvator of Austria and Countess Maria Theresia von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg. The wedding took place at Schloß Wallsee near Amstetten in Austria. The couple had seven children:
- Princess Maria-Theresia of Bavaria (b. 1956); married Count Tamas Kornis de Goncz-Ruszka; seven children.
- Prince Franz-Josef of Bavaria (b. 1957), a Benedictine monk in the abbey of Peramiho, Tanzania, now called Pater Florian.
- Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria (b. 1959); married Count Andreas von Kuefstein; six children.
- Prince Wolfgang of Bavaria (b. 1960); married Countess Beatrice of Lodron-Laterano and Castelromano; three children.
- Princess Benedikta of Bavaria (b. 1961); married Count Rudolf von Freyberg-Eisenberg; four children.
- Prince Christoph of Bavaria (b. 1962); married Baroness Gudila von Plettenberg; four children.
- Princess Gisela of Bavaria (b. 1964); married Prince Alexander of Saxe-Gessaphe; four children.
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