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Louis VI, Elector Palatine (4 July 1539 in Simmern – 22 October 1583 in Heidelberg), was an Elector from the Palatinate-Simmern branch of the house of Wittelsbach. He was the first-born son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine and Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach .
Elector Palatine. Also known as Louis III the Bearded. Born on 31 January 1378 in Electoral Palatinate Died on 8 January 1437 in Heidelberg
Louis V, Elector Palatine. Louis V, Count Palatine of the Rhine ( German: Ludwig V. von der Pfalz) (2 July 1478, in Heidelberg – 16 March 1544, in Heidelberg), also Louis the Pacific, was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. He was prince elector of the Palatinate . His parents were Philip, Elector Palatine, and Margaret, a daughter of Louis ...
Louis III was the third son of King Rupert of Germany and his wife Elisabeth of Nuremberg. During his father"s campaign in Italy 1401-1402 Louis served as imperial vicar. He succeeded his father in 1410 as Elector of the Palatinate but did not run for the German crown.
Louis IV was the son of Louis III, Elector Palatine and his second wife Matilda of Savoy. [1] His mother was a fourth-generation descendant of Thomas III of Piedmont (1248 - 1282), the eldest son of Thomas II of Savoy. [citation needed] From the death of Louis III in 1436 until 1442, Louis IV ruled under guardianship of his uncle, Count ...
Biography Of Bavaria; house of Wittelsbach, son of Rupert III and Elizabeth of Nuremberg (qq.v.); Elector Palatine from 1410; married first Blanche of England (q.v.), by whom one son, Rupert, then Matilda of Savoy (q.v.), by whom he had Ludwig IV (q.v.), Frederick, Rupert, Archbishop of Cologne, and Margaret, a nun
The Elector Palatine, now based in Heidelberg, adopted Lutheranism in the 1530s; when the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.
