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Apr 9, 2024 · Sophia was the electress of Hanover and heir to the British throne, whose son became George I of Great Britain. Sophia was the 12th child of Frederick V, elector Palatine of the Rhine, by his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of the English king James I. Residing after 1649 at Heidelberg with her brother,
Adolf of the Rhine ( German: Adolf der Redliche von der Pfalz) (27 September 1300, Wolfratshausen – 29 January 1327, Neustadt) from the house of Wittelsbach was formally Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1319 to 1327. He was the second son of Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria and his wife Mechtild of Nassau. [1] He didn't really rule because his uncle ...
Otto Heinrich became Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg at a young age and succeeded his uncle Friedrich II as elector in 1556. He had no children, and upon his death on 12 February 1559 he was succeeded by Friedrich III the Pious . Otto Heinrich had introduced the Lutheran Reformation into his hereditary lands of Neuburg and Sulzbach by 1542.
Prince Rupert's coat of arms as a Prince Palatine of the Rhine, showing the arms of the Palatine quartered with his dynastical arms of Wittelsbach. Prince Rupert had a varied career. He was a soldier as a child, fighting alongside Dutch forces against Habsburg Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and against the Holy Roman Emperor ...
The Counts Palatine of the Rhine were special in so far that the territory eventually grew so big (simplified said by being given to a family, the Wittelsbach, who held a lot of land even before that and united that with the land that already belonged to the "office" of the Count Palatine) that they were considered among the most important in ...
Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun.
Jan 16, 2017 · Karl Theodor (Charles Theodore), Elector Palatine of the Rhine, 1742-1799, and Elector of Bavaria, 1777-1799 ( Karl IV Theodor, Kurfürst von der Pfalz, Karl II Theodor, Kurfürst von Bayern ): born 12 December 1724, the son of Johann Christian von der Pfalz-Sulzbach. Karl Theodor was head of the Sulzbach line who inherited the Palatinate in ...
