Ferdinand Maria Innocenz Michael Joseph of Bavaria (5 August 1699 in Brussels – 9 December 1738 in Munich) was a Bavarian prince and an Imperial Field marshal.

Ferdinand Maria Innocent was a son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria (1662-1726) from his marriage to Therese Kunigunde Sobieska (1676-1730), a daughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

He served as a general in the imperial army. In 1738, he was promoted to Field marshal and imperial Feldzeugmeister.^[1]

He died in 1738 and was buried in the Theatine Church in Munich.

Ferdinand Maria Innocent married on 5 February 1719 in Zákupy to Maria Anna Carolina, a daughter of Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg. He had the following children:

• Maximilian Francis Joseph (1720–1738)
• Clement Francis de Paula (1722–1770)

married in 1742 Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Sulzbach (1722–1790)

• Therese Emmanuel (1723–1743)

Ferdinand also had a son from his extra-marital affaire with Countess Marie Adelaide Fortunata Spaur (1694–1781):

• Joseph Ferdinand (1718–1805), general of the regiment "Count of Salern", married:
  1. in 1753 to Countess Marie Mechthildis of Törring (1734–1764)
  2. in 1766 to Countess Josepha of La Rosee (d. 1772)

• Johannes Erichsen and Katharina Heinemann (Hrsg.): Die Schlacht von Höchstädt. Brennpunkt Europas 1704, Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2004, ISBN 3-7995-0214-9