Barbara Antonie Barth

Life

Antonie was in Munich as the daughter of Ludwig Barth and his wife, Marie Clara Beyhl. She was ennobled by the Regent of Bavaria under the family name of Von Bartolf Bayern (Bavaria) on November 19, 1892 when she was the age of twenty-one and the duke was a sixty-one year old widower. The duke's first wife, Darmstadt actress Henrietta Mendel, died the previous year on November 12, 1891. Bartolf left the duke in 1907 when she feared for her life. In 1909, when divorce proceedings began, Bartolf was said to have been physically abused, forced to participate in his cruel tricks, and treated "as a horse, a dog, and a goat and cheated her out of her pin money" by the duke during their marriage. They divorced in July 1913 after Frau Bartolf gave birth to a daughter, Hélène Helena Mayr von Bartolf married Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe.