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Palatinate-Simmern. Father. Frederick V, Elector Palatine. Mother. Elizabeth Stuart. Religion. Catholicism, prev. Protestant. Edward, Prince Palatine of the Rhine ( Eduard, Prinz von der Pfalz) (5 October 1625 – 10 March 1663), was the sixth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine (of the House of Wittelsbach ), the "Winter King" of Bohemia, by ...
Munich, in 1784, the elector was already an old man and had behind him a long, though scarcely a brilliant, career. Charles Philip Theodore, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria,' is not a man of whom the Bavarians are in any way proud. An able judge of men, Vergennes, Louis XVI's
Charles Theodore was a German nobleman of the Sulzbach branch of the House of Wittelsbach. He became Count Palatine of Sulzbach from his father Johann Christian in 1733, at the age of six. With the death of his cousin, Charles III Philip, he became Prince-elector and Count Palatine of the Rhine in 1742, being eighteen. In his fifties, he became Prince-Elector of Bavaria at the death of another ...
Frederick V (1596-1632) was Elector Palatine of the Rhine. He was a powerful German prince who ruled the part of Germany known as the Palatinate. During the Reformation, this area became a centre of Protestantism, despite being part of the Holy Roman Empire, which was Roman Catholic.
FREDERICK II. (1482–1556), surnamed “the Wise,” elector palatine of the Rhine, fourth son of the elector Philip, was born on the 9th of December 1482. Of an active and adventurous temperament, he fought under the emperor Maximilian I. in 1508, and afterwards served the Habsburgs loyally in other ways. He worked to secure the election of ...
He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398. He was the elder son of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Countess Irmengard of Oettingen. On 13 February 1338 the Palatinate was divided between Rupert II and his uncle Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria. [citation needed] After the death of his other uncle ...
