Note 1 — Chapter XV · A Meeting between Bismarck and Ludwig
Ethel Harriet Hearn translation
Count “Holnstein aus Bayern” used the Bavarian arms with a bar sinister in his signet ring, which would intimate that he was the illegitimate descendant of a Duke of Bavaria. He was also connected with the ducal court of Possenhofen; and he has been mentioned as the object of the Duchess Sophie’s first love.
He was married to a granddaughter of Prince Karl of Bavaria and the latter’s morganatic wife, Countess Bayersdorff. ↑