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Mother. Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine. Wolfgang of the Palatinate (nicknamed the Elder; 31 October 1494 in Heidelberg – 2 April 1558 in Neumarkt) was a German nobleman from the House of Wittelsbach. He was Count Palatine of Neumarkt and governor of the Upper Palatinate .
Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken; 26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1532.
In 1553, the County of Lützelstein (now La Petite-Pierre in Alsace) was purchased from the Electoral Palatinate. [1] Count Palatine Wolfgang dissolved the monasteries in his territory, thereby augmenting his revenues, [1] and acquired the territory of the Disibodenberg Abbey.
Palatinate, in German history, the lands of the count palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between two small territorial clusters: the Rhenish, or Lower, Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate.
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Article History. house of Wittelsbach, German noble family that provided rulers of Bavaria and of the Rhenish Palatinate until the 20th century. The name was taken from the castle of Wittelsbach, which formerly stood near Aichach on the Paar in Bavaria.
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Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (German language: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken) (26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken 1532–1559. Contents. 1 Biography. 2 Succession. 3 Family and children. 4 Ancestors. 5 References. 6 External links. Biography.
May 8, 2018 · Wolfgang William of Palatinate-Neuburg (ruled 1610 – 1653), who had been raised as a Lutheran, had maintained his claims in the J ü lich-Cleves Succession War and converted to Catholicism after marrying a sister of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1613.
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