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Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine, ( German: Ottheinrich; 10 April 1502, Amberg [1] – 12 February 1559, Heidelberg) [2] a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1505 to 1557 and prince elector of the Palatinate from 1556 to 1559. He was a son of Rupert, Count Palatine, third son of Philip, Elector Palatine ...
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 .
Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.) (16 August 1596 – 5 December 1632) was Elector Palatine (1610–23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Fridrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619–20); for his short reign he is often nicknamed the Winter King (Czech: Zimní král; German: Winterkönig). From 1622 until his death in 1632, he lived in exile with his wife and family. Between the "butterfly effect ...
Life. Frederick was born in Zweibrücken in 1616 as the elder son of John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. He succeeded his father in 1635. During his reign, Palatinate-Zweibrücken was devastated during the Thirty Years' War. The population of the duchy had decreased to a mere tenth of the population during the turn of the Century.
Feb 19, 2023 · Friedrich V von der Pfalz. English: Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.) was Elector Palatine (1610-23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Friedrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619-20). He was the son and heir of Frederick IV and of Louise Juliana von Orange-Nassau, the daughter of William I of Orange and Charlotte de Bourbon-Monpensier.
Nobility, son of Johann II and Beatrix von Baden. He was the first elector from the house Pfalz-Simmern, reigned the palatinate as elector from 1559 until his death, succeeding Elector Ottheinrich.
