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Frederick V was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign in Bohemia earned him the derisive sobriquet "the Winter King". Frederick was born at the hunting lodge in Deinschwang, Palatinate.
Signature. Charles Theodore (German: Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) 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 ...
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 ...
Philip the Upright (German: Philipp der Aufrichtige) (14 July 1448 – 28 February 1508) was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach from 1476 to 1508. Biography [ edit ] He was the only son of Louis IV, Count Palatine of the Rhine and his wife Margaret of Savoy .
Frederick IV (born March 5, 1574, Amberg, Palatinate—died Sept. 19, 1610, Heidelberg) was the elector Palatine of the Rhine, the only surviving son of the elector Louis VI. Frederick’s father died in October 1583, when the young elector came under the guardianship of his uncle John Casimir, an ardent Calvinist.
The Electorate of the Palatinate was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, based along the Upper Rhine around Heidelberg and Mannheim. The Electorate of the Palatinate emerged from the County Palatine of Lotharingia of the Ezzonian Dynasty. After their extinction in 1195/1196/6, the Counts Palatine lost their military importance and were reduced to their territories along the Rhine, and became ...
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 ...
