Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria

Karl Theodor (Charles Theodore) Wittelsbach ( - 1799, Munich) was the Elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine from 1743 until his death in 1799, and of the joined Palatinate-Bavaria after the extinction of the Bavarian branch of the Wittelsbach family with the death of Elector Max III Joseph in 1777. Karlstor (Karl's Gate) in Munich is named after him. Karl Theodor was unpopular with his Bavarian subjects, and his line was excluded from the Bavarian throne. He was succeeded by Maximillian IV Joseph of the Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld line of the Wittelsbach family. Karl Theodor fathered one child, Pius Wittelsbach, with his first wife Elisabeth Maria Auguste of Suzbach in 1786. After the death of Elisabeth he was married again in a morganaic marriage to Maria Leopoldine, the daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este.