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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 ...
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.
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 ...
(Ruprecht III. der Gerechte) 5 May 1352: 6 January 1398 – 18 May 1410: 18 May 1410: Electoral Palatinate: Elisabeth of Nuremberg 27 June 1374 Amberg seven children: Also King of Germany (1400–1410). Louis III the Bearded (Ludwig III. der Bärtige) 23 January 1378: 18 May 1410 – 30 December 1436: 30 December 1436: Electoral Palatinate ...
Louis III, Elector Palatine: Elector Palatine (1378 - 1436), Noble, From: Germany
House of Wittelsbach. Louis III (born Jan. 7, 1845, Munich [Germany]—died Oct. 18, 1921, Sárvár, Hung.) was the last king of Bavaria, from 1913 to 1918, when the revolution of November 7–8 brought the rule of the Wittelsbach dynasty to an end. In 1868 he married Maria Theresa, daughter of the archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este.
Frederick III of Simmern, the Pious, Elector Palatine of the Rhine (14 February 1515 – 16 October 1576) was a ruler from the house of Wittelsbach, branch Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. He was a son of John II of Simmern and inherited the Palatinate from the childless Elector Otto-Henry, Elector Palatine ( Ottheinrich ) in 1559.
